142 Making the American Thoroughbred 



POLLY PILLOW, by Leviathan, dam by Sir Archy; Ragland & Davis* 

 SIR JOSEPH BANKS, by imp Luzborough, dam by Sir Archy; Robert 

 Smith's (M. P. Gentry's) DAY DREAM; his PATSEY DAVIS, by Count 

 Badger, dam by Timoleon; and W. G. Harding's GAMMA. Patsey 

 made the best time, mile heats 1:53 1:52 2:02. Largest 

 purse, $400. No 4-mile race was run. 



The officers of the Club in 1837 were: President, Henry Baldwin, 

 Jr.; Vice-President, James Swanson; Secretary, F. T. Reid; Treas- 

 urer, T. H. Handy; Judges, James Swanson, J. C. Southall, Henry 

 Baldwin, Jr.; Timers, Hugh Kirkman, Samuel Ragland, Dr. S. S. 

 Mayfield. 



In 1839 the officers were: President, James Swanson; Vice- 

 President, M. Puryear; Secretary, Thomas K. Handy; Treasurer, 

 M. Doyle. 



MT. PLEASANT JOCKEY CLUB 



The race course of the Mt. Pleasant Jockey Club was on the 

 property of W. H. Boddie and was managed by him. It was "de- 

 lightfully situated in the centre of a dense wood contiguous to the 

 town of Mt. Pleasant and was thirty feet over a mile." 



At one or more of the three meetings held there, respectively, in 

 October, 1836, October, 1837, May, 1838, and May, 1839, entries were 

 run by W. H. Boddie, L. J. Polk, R. K. Polk, Nimrod Porter, William 

 Pillow, James H. Webster, Henry Smith, F. ZoIIicoffer, all of Maury; 

 Gen. J. A. Mabry of Knoxville; G. W. Parker of Sumner; Duke W. 

 Sumner, Stockley Donelson, William McCrory, L. P. Cheatham of 

 Davidson; Col. Robert Smith of Murfreesboro; Samuel Ragland, 

 James Kirkman, James H. Bradfute and A. T. Nolen, and the 

 following named, most of whom, probably, lived in Maury and 

 Giles: J. Sutton, W. Lawhorn, Ben Greer, Thomas Heath, Dr. 

 Roberts, G. W. Garrett, Thomas N. Williams, John S. Willis, Samuel 

 Mitchell, J. G. G. Garrett, Thomas Heitt, N. G. Murphy, N. F. Smith, 

 H. B. Porter, William Thomas, Thomas S. Smith, Wilkinson Barnes, 

 S. Newell, William G. Cage, John G. Keeble, D. L. Whitaker, Thomas 

 E. Ridley, Thomas Goodrum, R. C. Whitesides. 



At the first meeting referred to above Gen. Allen Brown was 

 President; Lucius J. Polk, Vice-President; H. A. Miller, Secretary; 

 Judges, William Pillow, L. J. Polk and Nimrod Porter; Timers^ 

 L. P. Cheatham and J. J. Goodrum. 



There were six races and 22 entries. 



