CHAPTER III 



EARLY OWNERS WERE GENTLEMEN 



As a second congratulation on the character 

 of the genesis of the turf in America are the 

 names and personahties of those distinguished 

 gentlemen who gave themselves to the support 

 and participation in the affairs of the turf. To 

 him who loves the traditions of the sport, whether 

 in this land or in foreign climes, it would be 

 pleasant to know that from the time of the or- 

 ganization of the Charleston Jockey Club and 

 the taking possession of the Washington Course, 

 the men who controlled the sport and who took 

 a leading part in its conduct were the highest 

 men of their times. They were to the human 

 kind the thoroughbreds which their horses were 

 to the equine race. They were the men who 

 made colonial history and the men who have 

 left behind them families of the most distin- 

 guished character. Josiah Quincy, visiting 

 Charleston in 1773, made these observations in 

 his famous published Journal: — 



