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spoils of victory — were turned over to General 

 Jackson and his party. 



The memorable duel between Jackson and 

 Dickinson grew out of the defeat of Irving's 

 Plow Boy, in a race of two-mile heats, for $5000, 

 by Truxton. 



Among the old and prominent breeders of 

 Tennessee may be named Judge Barry, General 

 W. G. Harding, Hon. BailHe Peyton, the Cock- 

 erills, and General Lucius J. Polk ; the latter the 

 elder brother of General Leonidas Polk, who was 

 killed in the Confederate service. 



From this general dissertation upon the foun- 

 dation of the American race-horse it is hoped 

 that even the most casual reader may be able 

 to understand the production of that animal 

 which we are going down to see any of these 

 afternoons at Sheepshead Bay. The story of 

 him from this page onward is the story of his 

 accomplishment, purely and simply. We cannot 

 know him in all his races, but we can know him 

 through that series of contests which went on 

 from year to year over the tracks of the North 

 and the South and the West. 



Continued fresh importations of English blood 

 enriched and outcrossed the native lines, and 



