Early Owners were Gentlemen 39 



course. They were General C. C. Pinckney, 

 General Washington, O'Brien Smith, John Wil- 

 son, James Ladson, William Alston, H. M. 

 Rutledge, Gabriel Manigault, General Reed, 

 Colonel Mitchell, General Wade Hampton, Dr. 

 Moultrie, James Burn, Captain White, Lucius 

 Campbell, William Moultrie, General M'Pherson, 

 Colonel M'Pherson, Colonel Morris, Edward Fen- 

 wicke, and William McCleod. 



These were the men who fathered the first 

 organized racing in America and to whom the 

 credit may be given for maintaining during its 

 lifetime such a high character of sport that it 

 has never been surpassed in this country, and, 

 for the social phases of racing, probably never 

 will be. At the time of the glory of this par- 

 ticular institution the social life of the Atlantic 

 seaboard, from Baltimore to the distant coast 

 towns of Florida, was affected. The Charles- 

 ton Races were as much an institution as the 

 Inaugural Ball at Washington, and the pride of 

 attendance upon them was quite as great. 



With Virginia and Maryland furnishing their 

 aristocrats upon their own turfs, the reader can 

 know that if, in this day and time, he is giving 

 his affections to the sport of the thoroughbred, 



