70 The American Thoroughbred 



was the season of 1836, when, at Columbia, he 

 won three days, eve7y time he started. He won 

 the Colt Stake with his Godolphin colt Lath ; 

 the Jockey Club Purse, four-mile heats, with Bay 

 Maria, and the Hampton Plate with Charlotte 

 Russe, full sister to Trifle. These races were 

 won without a broken heat, and against good 

 fields of horses. Immediately after, over the 

 Washington Course, near Charleston, he was 

 also eminently successful ; also at Augusta, 

 Georgia. Kitty Heath, three years, by Eclipse, 

 dam by Alfred, was in his stable at the time. 

 Kitty, with the three mentioned above, started 

 ten times during the campaign, and lost but one 

 race. 



The colonel deserved success, for he was not 

 only a gentleman of high character, but of great 

 liberality on the turf. He was for many years a 

 very liberal buyer, giving the highest prices for 

 horses that took his fancy and promised well, in 

 other states, as well as having purchased largely 

 at the annual sale of the royal stud at Hampton 

 Court, in England, as long as those sales con- 

 tinued. The following enumeration of his blood 

 stock imported from England, his native blood 

 stock, and horses in training, autumn of 1842, 



