CHAPTER XVI 



RACING IN WAR TIMES 



It was just when Lexington began to give his 

 great progeny to the turf world that the Civil 

 War came on, and racing was entirely paralyzed 

 south of Kentucky. Even during that troublous 

 period the Lexington Association continued to 

 give meetings^ lapsing only the one season, when 

 Kirby Smith's army was occupying the race- 

 course. Louisville went right along at her 

 favorite sport, and some remarkable races were 

 run over the Woodlawn Course there, which 

 were in a way lost because, at the time of the 

 running, the men, of the South particularly, were 

 busy in the trenches or on the march. Phila- 

 delphia, Paterson, New Jersey, the two or three 

 small tracks nearer to New York, and Chicago 

 gave occasional meetings. 



Right in the very heart of the war, in 1863, the 

 Saratoga Association first became a fact, and the 

 track at Saratoga, now known as Horse Haven, 

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