Whence the American Thoroughbred 7 



man and ever a reliant one, he did for himself the 

 duties which the horse was supposed to share with 

 the cavalier. Your Virginian and your North 

 Carolinian and your Marylander threaded his way 

 through the early forest astride his horse. He 

 had him for constant companion and held him 

 as being scarcely second to his flint-lock as a 

 protective or aggressive agency. 



Beyond all this utilitarian suggestion which 

 caused the cavalier to bring the race-horse with 

 him to America, there was the sporting instinct 

 which he had inherited from his ancestor at home. 

 For although the thoroughbred horse had not 

 existed for such a great number of years before 

 the founding of the colony at Jamestown, there 

 still had been horse-racing regularly conducted at 

 Newmarket Heath in England since the time of 

 James I. There had been sporting monarchs 

 of old England long before the Virginia charter 

 was issued. 



So it came that the race-horse followed the cav- 

 alier, and he became the attendant of the labors 

 as well as the pleasures of the gentleman in this 

 new country as he had been that in the old. Also, 

 being a selected animal and therefore being held 

 at more than ordinary price, the race-horse was 



