CHAPTER XI 



Kentucky's greatness of blood 



Such a race between such horses could not 

 have been possible without the very highest of 

 thoroughbred breeding being present in both 

 animals. And this contest, of this character, be- 

 speaks the excellence which the racing horse had 

 obtained in what were then called the Southern 

 and Western states. It may readily be seen that 

 that particular section of the country had early 

 busied itself in the creation of a first-class animal 

 for the turf and other pui-poses. 



Kentucky and Tennessee were settled by the 

 Virginians and the Carolinians. There were two 

 lines of emigration toward the Mississippi River. 

 These two lines met in Kentucky and Tennessee 

 and there were merged, in a way; and as they 

 had come from states where the breeding of the 

 thoroughbred horse had already been in prog- 

 ress fifty years or more, they immediately began 

 bringing into the new countries that superior 



