36 The American Tborougbbred 



and endurance were limited to a high flash of 

 galloping at an extremely short distance, and were 

 of the type and kind of equine contest which has 

 never had recognition as real racing. 



The utmost research has developed that the 

 first thoroughbred, or more strictly speaking, rac- 

 ing, horse that came to America was this Bulle 

 Rock in 1730. And yet, so busy did the Carolin- 

 ians make themselves with the sports of the turf 

 that they were running these races on Charleston 

 Neck in the golden afternoons of 1734. And you 

 may be quite sure that the stock starting in that 

 first authenticated race, of which the Charles- 

 ton Gazette made proper report, were not dung- 

 hills, because, in all of the long story of the horses 

 which have made the turf, the dunghill has not 

 run at mile heats with credit to himself. Any of 

 the old Virginian or Carolinian quarter horses 

 would have had an easy journey to have beaten a 

 cold-blooded dunghill even at mile heats. 



