34 The American Thoroughbred 



" This race was a magnificent wind up, indeed, 

 to the sports of the week, and proves the good 

 judgment of the Club in terminating our Races 

 with a description of race that must always insure, 

 when the horses are at all equal, excellent sport. 

 Being but a single heat, there can be no waiting 

 for chances, but every one must make play ab 

 tjiitio, if he wishes to console himself at the finish 

 with the agreeable reflection, that Fmis coronat 

 opusr 



One might go on writing for an interminable 

 number of pages anent this one racing association 

 alone. Conceived entirely as a social institution, 

 conducted purely for love of sport and as an out- 

 door affair calculated to bring together the best- 

 bred ladies and gentlemen of the South, as well 

 as the best-bred horses of that district, it is not 

 a matter of wonder that the South Carolinians, 

 so stricken by the war of 1861-65, had neither 

 heart in them, nor purses sufficiently well filled, to 

 renew the old graces of the time that had gone, 

 and never again have those gladsome days been 

 seen down there in the old Southern city. 



But they did make turf history, and such early 

 and such elegant history! They were also of the 

 kind who preserved the records of their doings, 



