224 The American Thoroughbred 



His brothers, Hamlintonian, Florizel, Cashier, and 

 Eclipse (the sire of Doublehead), had a numerous 

 progeny in Kentucky. No part of the United 

 States can produce perhaps so large a number of 

 the blood and kindred of that first and noblest 

 of American horses as this state and this part 

 of it. 



" Kentucky's stock of horses, of other bloods 

 than the Diomed or Archy, or only remotely 

 related, was very fine. Blackburn's Whip was a 

 thoroughbred son of the imported Whip ; and 

 was, except a defect in the withers, a most 

 beautiful horse. His brother, Rees's Whip, his 

 sons. Tiger, Paragon, Whipster, Kennon's Whip, 

 and others, are fine horses ; and that family is the 

 most extensive and perhaps the handsomest of 

 any. 



" Moses, son of Sir Harry, formerly owned by 

 Mr. Haxhall of Petersburg, Virginia, was a fine 

 animal, and left a small but very choice stock. 

 Melzor by Medley and Albert by Melzor out of 

 his own dam also produced very superior stock." 



Such as these were the animals which laid the 

 foundation of the turf in Kentucky and opened a 

 way for the farms in that state to be more highly 

 productive than any similar areas of ground in 



