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On another occasion, at Charleston, February 

 28, 1837, Colonel Hampton presented the pro- 

 ceeds of the Citizens' Purse, $1200, won by his 

 ch. f. Kitty Heath, to the South Carolina Jockey 

 Club, to aid in completing certain improvements 

 then in progress over the Washington Course. 



The most interesting event in the colonel's 

 sporting career was his entry of Herald, in the 

 great Produce Stake at Nashville, and the subse- 

 quent race, 1 843. No sporting affair in the country 

 had previously produced so general an interest 

 as the immense stake in which this promising 

 colt was engaged. The number of horses entered, 

 their blood, the high character of their owners, 

 the large amount of money to be run for, could 

 not but render the Peyton Stakes an event of no 

 ordinary importance. The value of the stakes 

 was higher than any previously run for in this 

 country; higher, even, than many in England 

 (large as their produce stakes always are), equal- 

 ling in amount the far-famed Derby and Oaks 

 at Epsom, and St. Leger at Doncaster. 



There were thirty nominations. On the day 

 of the race but four made their appearance at 

 the post; namely, produce of imported Eliza by 

 Rubens and imported Glencoe, entered by J. Kirk- 



