12 INTRODUCTION. 



For the assistance I have received from eveiy person — with 

 one distinguished exception, to which I sliall not refer — to whom 

 I have presumed to ajjply for advice and information, with no 

 farther excuse for my intrusion than the freemasonry which 

 exists between all lovers of the horse, and the importance of my 

 subject, I should be, indeed, ungracious and unmindful did 

 not 1 record my sincere gratitude; and I trust I shall be par- 

 doned if I take the liberty to name those gentlemen to whom I 

 owe especial thankfulness, and without whose kindly aid 

 I should vainly have endeavored to accomplish my task, for 

 want of the materials, which they have most liberally fur- 

 nished. 



To Mr. J. Prescott Hall, of Newport, E. I., and to Dr. Sayre, 

 of New York, for the use of their own valuable libraries, and 

 for that of the late Charles Henry Hall, enriched with his valu- 

 able MS. notes, and those of that distinguished tilrfman, the 

 late Cadwallader D. Golden, I gratefully acknowledge my 

 indebtedness. To Governor King, of New York ; to Mr. Wil- 

 liam Williatns, of Tennessee ; to Mr. David W. Jones, of Cold 

 Spring Harbor, L. I. ; to Mr. Tayloe, of Washington City ; to 

 Mr. Miliken, of Charleston, S. C, I have to return my thanks 

 for valuable written communications, and much informatiou, 

 otherwise unattainable. To Dr. Sayre, to that late distinguished 

 patron of all that is most manly in manhood, Mr. John C. 

 Stevens, and to Mr. Ten Broeck, I am deeply indebted for their 

 loan of, and permission to engrave, the original portraits of 

 those noble animals. Sir Archy, Eclipse, Black Maria, and 

 Pryor ; and to the owners of animals generally, for their readiness 

 to allow portraits to be made, or photographs to be taken, for 

 the use of this work. 



The likenesses of Glencoe, given both as a type of the En- 

 glish thoroughbred of the present day, and as a portrait of one 

 of the most successful of recently imported stallions, of Boston, 



