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James I., was continued in that of Charles I., and during the 

 Commonwealth; and advanced with renewed spirit on the 

 restoration of the Stuarts, of whom one is hajjpy to record — 

 since there is little else to be recorded in their favor — that they 

 were a horse-loving and sport-encouraging race, and that Eng- 

 land, and through her America, owe to them, in great part, the 

 blood of their matchless steeds. 



" In the reign of Queen Anne, the last of that house who sat 

 on the royal throne of England, the English thoroughbred 

 horse may be regarded as fully established ; the Darley Arabian, 

 sire of Elying Childers, Curwen's Barb, and Lord Carlisle's 

 Turk, sire of the Bald Galloway, being imported in her reign. 

 Sixteen years after her death, and three years before the foun- 

 dation of Georgia, the youngest of the royal colonies, twenty- 

 one foreign, and fifty native stallions, some of them the most 

 celebrated horses the world has ever seen, such as Childers, 

 Bartlett's Childers, the Grey Childers, the Bald Galloway, Bay 

 Bolton, Coneyskins, Crab, Fox, Hartley's Blind Horse, Jigg, 

 Soreheels, and Trueblne were covering in the United Kingdoms ; 

 and from some of those are descended almost all our racers of 

 the present day. Six years before this, the first Kacing Calen- 

 dar was pnblished in England, with nearly seven hundred sub- 

 scribers. 



During this period it was, precisely, that the American, 

 colonies were planted ; and, as might be anticipated, English 

 horses of pure blood were at a very early date introduced ; and 

 in those regions, where the settlement was principally effected 

 by men of birth, attached to the Cavalier party, race-horses 

 were kept and trained, race-courses were established, and a well- 

 authenticated stock of thoroughbred animals, tracing to the 

 most celebrated English sires, many of which were imported 

 in the early part of the eighteenth century, was in existence 

 considerably before the outbreak of the old French war. 



In the Eastern States, the settlers of which were for the 

 most part attached to the Puritan party, and therefore opposed 

 to all amusements and j^astimes as frivolous at the least and 

 unprofitable, and to horse-racing more especially as profane and 

 positively wicked, very few horses of thorougli blood were im- 

 ported ; racing has never taken any root in them, nor I believe 



