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hundred Guineas, with a standard of weights, undouhtedly savors 

 of established proceedings and a well supported race course ; 

 of latter years there has been no course for running horses in 

 the State of Pennsylvania, though the Hunting Park Course 

 has been long famous for its trotting ; and while there have 

 never, I believe, been any distinguished racing stables in that 

 State, its inhabitants have always been ardent supporters of 

 trotting, and purchasers, for the last quarter of a centur}^, of 

 most of the cracks which have established their characters on 

 other courses. 



To return to the Southern States, therefore, in which, as I 

 have observed, racing first took a firm root among the agricul- 

 tural gentry, who, in whatever climate or country, are always 

 more addicted to manly and exhilarating exercises, to field 

 sports, and to the encouragement of objects not merely utili- 

 tarian, than the dwellers of cities, who are apt to regard money 

 as the only true and legitimate pursuit ; we find that, in the 

 States named above — of Virginia, Maryland, and South Caro- 

 lina — many racing stables were established, either previous or 

 immediately subsequent to the Revolution, not a few of which 

 are kept up by the descendants of the original founders to the 

 present day, with equal spirit and success. 



In Virginia, Col. Jolm Tayloe, Messrs. Hoomes, Selden, and 

 Johnson ; in Maryland, Governors Ogle, Eidgely, Wright, 

 Lloyd, and Sprigg, who, as it has been remarked, seemed by 

 their practice to acknowledge that the keeping up of a racing 

 stud was a portion of their gubernatorial duty ; and in South 

 Carolina, Messrs. Hampton, Washington, McPherson, Alston, 

 and Singleton, were as early, and have continued to be as con- 

 sistent and undeviating patrons of the American turf, as have 

 the Queensburys, Eutlands, Wyndhams,Bentincks, Fitzwilliams, 

 and other equally renowned turf names, been supporters of this 

 noble sport on the old English greensward. 



From so early a date as that of the ante-revolutiunary cracks 

 and champions, such as Celer, Traveller, Yorick, Tryall, Ariel, 

 Partnei-, Marc Antony, Eegulus, Flag of Truce, Goode's Brim- 

 mer, Butler's Virginia Nell, Bel Air, Calypso, Gray Diomed, 

 Cincinnatus, Virago, Shark, Black Maria, by Shark, Leviathan, 

 Gallatin, Fairy, Cup-bearer, Collector, Amanda, Ball's Florizel, 



