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observation tends to the conclusion that the finest bone comes as 

 a rule from the best grass, which, it is well known, is raised on a 

 limestone sub-stratum, after which that of the red sand stone has 

 been reckoned the best. But though much of our own grass lands 

 (particularly in Ireland) furnish good bone making material, they 

 can scarcely compare in this particular with the wide plains of 

 herbage in ... America . . . Besides this, if I am to credit the 

 opinion of keen observers of the young stock of America, added to 

 those I have seen myself, bone and substance appear to be their 

 distinguishing quality. And . . . they have persistently progressed 

 in the matter of speed." 



This was written before it was known that some so-called "red 

 sandstone" in this country was, in fact, phosphate rock, and that 

 this bone-making phosphate enters, more or less, into all the grasses 

 of the principal running-horse and trotting-horse counties of Middle 

 Tennessee. 



What could be made England's recruiting ground could, also, 

 be made the recruiting ground of Continental Europe, which will 

 be sadly in need of recruits at the close of the present war. 



Four pocket size stud books kept by Rev. Hardy M. Cryer, 

 containing names of men who sent mares to Stockholder, Sir William, 

 Arab and Luzborough, show more clearly than any other evidence 

 the author has found, the wide extent to which the breeding of 

 thoroughbreds prevailed among all classes, irrespective of occupa- 

 tion. Among the patrons of Cryer's horses were Rev. A. Martin 

 who sent Twilight by Rifleman; Rev. Martin Clark, of the M. E. 

 Church, who sent a sorrel filly by Conqueror; Rev. Fountain E. 

 Pitts, of the M. E. Church, who sent a mare called ^Preacher; .and 

 Rev. Robert Paine, of the M. E. Church, who sent a mare by Stately. 



Rev. Martin Clark lived in Rutherford County. Rev. Fountain 

 E. Pitts was among the leaders in the church. Rev. Robert Paine 

 when he sent his Stately mare to Stockholder in 1827 was 

 Presiding elder of the Nashville District, and on his rounds from 

 Duck river to Dover doubtless learned the necessity of having a 

 horse that could "stay the distance." Doubtless his good steeds 

 facilitated his good deeds and helped him to rise to the place of 

 Bishop. 



