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sylvania. Let no reader misunderstand me ; I pay reverent 

 homag-e to the gentlemen sportsmen of the Palmetto State, 

 but inexorable history gives the laurel for the establish- 

 ment of organized courses in this country to the State of the 

 gentle Quaker. More's the pity that in the years which 

 followed the great commonwealth of William Penn per- 

 mitted itself to be outstripped in the race for eminence in 

 this noblest of all our sports. 



It may be of interest to give a list of all the horses, 

 especially the Arabians, imported into the United States 

 before the Revolution. Accidentally omitted is Lindsey's 

 Arabian, the only and first Arabian, ever imported into 

 America up to or prior to the War of Independence. He 

 was a gray, and commonly called " Lindsey's Arabian." He 

 was landed in Connecticut in 1766, and was then four years 

 old. His stock proved to be valuable, and many of his get 

 were employed as cavalry horses in the army of the United 

 States. 



In the stud he was successful. He was the sire of Gen- 

 eral George Washington's Magnolia, Mr. Edelin's Tullp,Dr. 

 Marshall's Hyder Ally, as well as a black horse belonging 

 to Notly Young, and a gray which later found his way to Win- 

 chester, Virginia. In connection herewith, I recount a list 

 of Arabians and Barbs which have been brought into the 

 United States since the Revolution. 



A horse and mare sent as a present by the^Bey of Tunis 

 through his Ambassador, Meli Melle, to Thomas Jefferson, 

 then President of the United States ; pedigree unknown. 



Arab Barb, a black, imported by Colonel Lear. He was 

 large and strong, well proportioned, but not handsome. He 

 was said to be sire of the dam of Fairfax. 



Bagdad, purchased by George Barkly, Esq., of New 

 York, from Hassana De Gris, Minister to England from 

 Tripoli, who imported him into England as a horse of 

 pure Arabian blood. He was afterwards purchased by a 

 company in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1823. 



Ballasteros, an Arabain, dark brown, who had been the 

 property of Ferdinand, King of Spain. When the French 

 army got possession of Madrid the stud belonging to the 

 King of Spain was taken by the Spanish nobles, carried to 

 Cadiz, and there sold. There Ballasteros became the property 



