Kentucky's Greatness of Blood 221 



blood which they had known in their mother 

 states. 



Virginia furnished the greater number of 

 animals to the early breeders of Kentucky and 

 Tennessee, as she also furnished them to the 

 gentlemen of the extreme Southern states. The 

 Kentuckians were much enamoured of what they 

 called the Archy stock. The Archy stock was 

 represented by sons and daughters and grand sons 

 and daughters of that Sir Archy who was sired 

 by that imported Diomed who has heretofore 

 been referred to in these papers as having made 

 the greatest impress upon the thoroughbred horse 

 of Virginia. 



There was at one time almost as much of this 

 Archy blood in Kentucky as had been left behind 

 in Virginia. Beginning with that as a founda- 

 tion, the Kentuckians went enthusiastically to 

 work to contribute their part to the national 

 fabric, and in order to do so they very early 

 became their own importers from England. 



The crossing of these foreign sires upon the 

 Archy, Bertrand, Fearnought, Janus, Citizen, and 

 Pacolet blood which they had in their brood 

 mares produced the first of the famous horses 

 which have kept the name of Kentucky before 



