200 The American Thoroughbred 



condition, had not staked a dollar ; their judgment 

 prompted them to back the Southern champion, 

 but they would not bet against Kentucky ! Talk 

 of state pride in South Carolina ! Why, the 

 Kentuckians have more of it than the citizens of 

 all the states in the Confederacy added together. 

 They not only believe Kentucky to be the Eden 

 of the world, and the garden of the Union, but 

 their own favorite county to be the asparagus- 

 bed of the state ! And they have good reason ; 

 Kentucky is a glorious state. The talent and 

 chivalry of her sons are in keeping with the 

 intelligence and peerless beauty of her daughters, 

 and well may they be proud of her and of each 

 other. But to the horses. 



" All cooled off well, but more especially Gray 

 Eagle, who appeared not to mind the run a jot. 

 They got, as Clinton remarked, ' a capital scrape 

 out of him,' and he was 'as fine as silk' — in 

 good order for a bruising heat. He extended 

 himself with a degree of ease in the second heat, 

 and changed his action in a manner that con- 

 vinced us that the sweat had relieved him. 

 Wagner, who resembles Boston in many other 

 respects, showed all that placidity and calmness 

 of look and motion which characterizes ' the old 



