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descended as the latter is from stock imported from the mother 

 country. But, taking the fact for granted, I may proceed to allude 

 to the progress which has been made in the United States, from 

 the date of the first importation. It appears that shortly prior to 

 the year 1750, a Mr. Ogle, the G-overnor of Maryland, was in pos- 

 session of Spark, presented to him by Lord Baltimore. About the 

 same time he also imported Queen Mab, by Musgrove's gray Arab; 

 and, soon afterwards, Colonel Tasker obtained Selima, daughter 

 of the Godolphin Arabian; while Colonel Colville's Miss Colville, 

 known in the English Stud Book as Wilkes* Old Hautboy mare, 

 Colonel Taylor's Jenny Cameron, and Routh's Crab, were severally 

 introduced into the colony. In 1747, Monkey, by the Lonsdale 

 bay Arab, though in his twenty-second year, crossed the Atlantic, 

 and got some good stock, followed during the next year by Jolly 

 Roger, by Roundhead, out of a Partner mare. About 1764, Fear- 

 nought, a son of Regulus and Silvertail, and therefore of the very 

 highest English blood, went to America, and within a few years 

 of that date Morton's Traveller, by Partner, out of a mare by the 

 Bloody Buttocks Arabian, which completes the list of the importa- 

 tions prior to the War of Independence. It must be observed, 

 that, before the year 1829, no Turf Register existed in America, 

 and hence there is not the same guarantee for the fidelity of a 

 pedigree as in England, where there are authentic records which 

 reach to a much earlier period. Moreover, the war upset the 

 homes of so many families, that multitudes of documents were lost; 

 but, nevertheless, I believe sufficient has been preserved to prove 

 the authenticity of the pedigrees belonging to the horses which I 

 have enumerated, and whose progeny can be traced down to the 

 present day, their blood being mingled with that of numerous im- 

 portations of a more recent date. The love of racing was very soon 

 implanted in the colonists of Maryland and Virginia, from whom 

 it spread to North and South Carolina, and in these southern states 

 the sport has been kept up to the present day with great spirit. 

 Tennessee was inoculated with the virus of the racing mania soon 

 after its first settlement, as also may be said of Kentucky, both 

 states having possessed some very celebrated horses at various 

 times. New York joined in at a much later period than the southern 

 states, no organized racing-club existing there until after the com- 

 mencement of the present century; although there were small 

 racecourses at Newmarket and Jamaica before the Revolution. 

 But the energy of the true Yankee sent the New Yorkites ahead, 

 and they soon became worthy rivals of the southern statesmen. 

 From 1815 to 1845, the great stables of the North and South 

 were carried on under a most honorable rivalry ; but at the second 

 of these dates, it so happened that a vast number of the most ener- 

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