CHAPTER V 



Maryland's horses and horsemen 



Maryland, being made up of a population 

 much akin by sympathies of blood and beliefs 

 with the people of Virginia, was not long in 

 following her sister state into that particular 

 field of gentlemanly sport. Like Virginia, 

 Maryland was an early and a constant importer, 

 though she brought within her confines nothing 

 like the number of horses which came to Virginia. 



From an old volume of the Sporting Maga- 

 zine, which was published in the early part of the 

 nineteenth century in Baltimore, is taken a list 

 and descriptions of the best-known animals that 

 were brought to Maryland in the very earliest 

 days : — 



Badger, gray, imported by Governor Eden ; the 

 year of his importation is not known. Governor 

 Eden commenced his administration in Maryland 

 in the year 1769. Badger was got by Lord 

 Chedworth's Bosphorus, he by Babraham, a son 



