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winners, that it has come of late to be regarded as a fore- 

 shadowing of excellence, rather than a deforinitj. It has been 

 worn bj- Eclipse, Black Maria, her brother, Shark, Boston, Ar- 

 gyle, and many other horses of great note. 



Bedford got ; vEolus, Cup-Bearer, Fairy, Lady Bedford, Lot- 

 tery, Nancy Air, Shylock, and others not inferior in repute. 



On the first settlement of Tennessee, previous to its admission 

 as a State into the Union, the early settlers began taking with 

 them excellent stock from Yirginia and Maryland, and the blood 

 of Janus, Jolly Eoger, Morton's Traveller, Pacolet, and other 

 worthies of the olden times, still percolates in rich luxuriance 

 through the veins of their noble steeds. It has been always a 

 gallant and a sporting State ; and I feel proud and happy — the 

 rather that the history of the blood stock of Tennessee and of 

 the neighboring State of Kentucky is nearly identical — to be 

 allowed the opportunity of presenting to my readers a most 

 valuable memoir of the blood of its best equine families, con- 

 siderately and kindly compiled for me from his own memoranda 

 of old times, and from personal recollection of events, even 

 before General Jackson and his contemporaries were on the 

 turf, by a veteran turfman and a hereditary breeder, Mr. Wil- 

 liam Williams — to whom I take this occasion of tendering my 

 most grateful and respectful thanks. 



