Haynies Maria Against the World 263 



" If I were forty and Maria four years of age I would 

 not want a greater fortune than I could win with her at 

 Fordham and Saratoga." 



He thinks the improvement in training and the condition 

 of the race tracks account for the difference in time of 

 this and former days. He thinks if the horses of the pres- 

 ent day were galloped in sweats 1 6 or 20 miles under 8 or 

 10 Mackinaw blankets, and every morning and evening 

 galloped 4 miles and repeated under 2 or 3 blankets, and 

 ran their races on deep heavy tracks, as formerly, they 

 would make slow time, and very few of them would be 

 seen on the turf at the age of 9 years; and I agree with 

 him. 



In old times, in cases of severe fevers, doctors excluded 

 the fresh air and wrapped their patients in blankets, and 

 gave them warm water to drink. The first cargo of 

 Yankee ice brought to New Orleans was thrown into the 

 Mississippi by an order of the Mayor under advice from 

 the medical board. 



I believe that it is conceded that Flying Childers and 

 O' Kelly's Eclipse were the fastest horses the world has 

 ever produced; or, in the expressive language of John 

 Randolph, "They were the swiftest quadrupeds that 

 ever appeared on the earth." 



These two horses were the "diamonds of the desert" 

 the pure fountains with which we are delighted to 

 connect our thoroughbreds by the unbroken links of an 

 extended chain. 



NOTE BY J. D. A. Although Peyton's extended pedigree of 

 Maria includes matter that has already been given in this volume, 

 it is retained, unabridged, as a striking illustration of the way the 

 thoroughbred was made, and as a convenient source of information 

 in detail about the blood of what is believed to have been the best 

 racer that ever circled a track in Tennessee. 



