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raced successfully in this country and was of great fame when 

 she went to the stud, producing Verifier, Voucher, Varona, 

 La Variation and Van Dyke. There was probably no more 

 extensive planter in the whole Mississippi Valley, and lie 

 was held in high esteem by every one. When he went to 

 England to purchase Brittania he was entertained by many 

 of the celebrated nobles of the day and was held in equally 

 high esteem by the Britons. 



Major Le Compte was probably the greatest French 

 turfman of his time, and until the Lorillards came he was 

 an extensive planter of Louisiana and had a breeding estab- 

 lishment at Shreveport. As a turfman of the first class of 

 his day he was held in great respect everywhere. Such 

 horses as Gallatin, Bob Snell, or the Dutchman, Telee, 

 and Miss Riddlesworth were in his string and they were all 

 recognized as celebrities of their time. Ad Small, who was Le 

 Compte's trainer, was noted all over the South for his ability. 

 He died at Saratoga, and I was one of the pall bearers at 

 the funeral. 



Once Le Compte said to me of Colonel Minor's Veri- 

 fier: "Mr. Davis, he can run as fast as the telegraph and 

 stand driving like a wedge." He said it in broken French, 

 but I do not feel equal to giving it just as he said it. 



Duncan F. Kenner, of Louisiana, was known as " the 

 old Red Fox of the South." He always represented the 

 South in all her turf matters, attending the conventions of 

 the North and South, and always got the lion's share of the 

 privileges. He was a man of great executive ability, and 

 was the owner of Gray Medoc, Dart, Humming Bird, 

 Whale, who was never beaten; Dolphin, Florian, full brother 

 to Doubloon; Louis d'Or, Ha'penny, Roupee and hundreds 

 of others too numerous to mention. Mr. Kenner was a 

 noted planter and a leading man of his day. Before his 

 death he became the manager of all the canal interests 

 about New Orleans and was a man of vast enterprise. 

 Kenner was sent to England to represent the interests of the 

 Confederacy during the Civil War and did so with marked 

 ability. 



Thomas Patterson was from Tennessee and rubbed 

 Misfoot, a celebrated mare, the best of her day in America, 

 when he was but a boy. Then he became a trainer and had 



