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the finest stallions of England stood many years 

 in Kentucky, and most of them left their bones 

 in that state. 



These horses were let to mares (brought to 

 Kentucky by gentlemen settling in the state), the 

 get of Janus, Fearnought, Diomed, Medley, Wild- 

 air, Sterling, Shark, and indeed most of the best 

 stallions bred or imported into the Eastern, South- 

 ern, or Middle states. 



For many years, blooded mares and stallions 

 were annually brought into Kentucky in return 

 for cattle, hogs, mules, geldings, etc., driven to the 

 Eastern and Southern market by the Kentuckians. 

 To say nothing of the native Kentucky horses, 

 who were little if at all inferior to any on the con- 

 tinent, the state was full of foreign stallions of the 

 purest blood. Two close relatives of Sir Archy, 

 one (Potomac) by his sire, and the other (Hephes- 

 tion) out of his dam, stood within a few miles of 

 Lexington. Hephestion was, at that time, the 

 only living son of Buzzard, and was out of the 

 best mare ever on this continent. 



Wrote a gentleman fifty years ago : " Bertrand, 

 Cherokee, Saxe Weimar, Sumpter, Kosciusko, 

 and several others of the first sons of Sir Archy 

 stood within less than a day's ride of Lexington. 



