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clean set of limbs; homely, but muscular, quarters; light 

 bodied; his forearm "uncommonly long, thick and 

 strong." 



Under the training and management of Burbridge 

 Rodolph had run six races and won all of them. These 

 were a 2-mile heat race, three 3-mile heat races and two 

 4-mile heat races. Over the Oakland Course in the spring 

 of 1835, in a 3-mile heat race, he was credited by his owners 

 as having made the best time ever made "west of the 

 mountains" first heat 5:54; second heat 5:48. Ken- 

 tuckians thought him a great 4-miIer, but the Editor of 

 The Spirit, who was in no sense prejudiced against Ken- 

 tucky, could not see that Rodolph's best time entitled 

 him to be so classed. After Desha's challenge had been 

 accepted Rodolph served his full quota of 40 mares. 



Angora was 4 years old, 15^ hands high, a chestnut 

 without white. Her head was finely shaped and well set 

 on a long neck; her forelegs set wide apart, but came to 

 the ground evenly and in line. Her thighs and arms were 

 light but muscular; her cannon bones very long; across 

 the loin and through the brisket she was "very fine," 

 her shoulders broad and oblique. She was bred by Gen. 

 Desha and was trained for this race by Green Berry 

 Williams. 



Under the agreement Angora was to carry 97 pounds 

 and Rodolph 118 pounds. 



The only questions that could possibly have been 

 involved in this contest were the merits of the horses, the 

 relative merits of the Archy and Leviathan blood, and the 

 skill of the respective trainers and riders. But here, as 

 in many political campaigns, the real question became of 

 secondary importance, and the contest assumed the phase 

 of a great fight between Kentucky and Tennessee for 

 imaginary supremacy in the racing world of "The West." 



