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to send Black Maria to Glencoe, and upon the subsequent 

 purchase of her by the Hon. Balie Peyton, it was deter- 

 mined that she should go into the harem of Luzborough. 

 One of the owners of Glencoe, somewhat nettled at the 

 change, immediately challenged with the get of Glencoe 

 from imp Eliza by Rubens of the same year. The 

 proposition was accepted and subsequently converted 

 into a sweepstake," etc., etc. 



According to a statement of Mr. Alex Jackson, grand- 

 son of James Jackson, now (1916) residing in Mobile, the 

 Peyton stake originated in a "friendly game of Boston," 

 in Nashville. Mr. A. D. Hunt, a son-in-law of James 

 Jackson, and connected with a cotton factory at Florence, 

 stopped over in Nashville, on his way to Kentucky, and 

 while participating in this "friendly game of Boston" 

 the conversation turned to race horses. The Nashville 

 "Bostonians" ridiculed Glencoe in the strongest terms; 

 at the same time they lauded Luzborough. 



To season their conversation they proposed a wager of 

 $5,000 on one of Luzborough's get, against any one of 

 Glencoe's Hunt might select, 4-mile heats, over the Nash- 

 ville course. Hunt answered that he had no pecuniary 

 interest in Glencoe, nor in any other thoroughbred, but 

 that if the matter were submitted to Mr. Jackson he would 

 doubtless accommodate them. 



On his return to Florence, Hunt told Jackson what had 

 occurred. Jackson took up the matter and proposed to 

 make the contest open to the whole world, he to enter 

 nothing but Glencoe's get. 



In the one essential particular, viz., that the Peyton 

 stake had its origin in the feeling between Jackson and 

 the Tennessee lessees of Luzborough, the two versions 

 above given coincide and are corroborated by the written 

 proposition previously quoted. 



