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bles; and again, the next year, the Jockey Club plate of one hun- 

 dred pounds was won by James DeLancey's black horse, Auction- 

 eer. Space does not admit of a record of the triumphs of Lewis 

 Morris' celebrated mare, Strumpet, or of his American Childers. In 

 October, 17/3, a subscription was entered into by the gentlemen of 

 Virginia, Maryland and New York, when the Southerners proposed 

 to bring on their horses to the May meeting on the New Market 

 course. Governor Eden of Maryland, engaged to attend with Young 

 Bosphorus, Babraham, and Why Not; Mr. Fauntleroy, with Miss 

 Sprightly and Yorick ; Mr. George Baylor, with his colt by Fear- 

 naught, which had first beaten Colonel Lloyd's Young Traveler and 

 Whirligig, of the blood of Firetail, which sold, in 1773, for ten thou- 

 sand pounds, to the celebrated Charles Fox and two of his peers of 

 the British senate. 



" Against these James DeLancey promised his bay horse Bashaw 

 and his colt Matchem ; Captain Rutgers, his famous Macaroni ; Cap- 

 tain Heard, his bay mare, by Snap ; Mr. Waters, his King Herod, 

 and Mr. Cornell, his Steady; but this meeting does not seem to 

 have been had. 



"The name of James DeLancey's intimate friend, Dulany of 

 Maryland, does not appear in this list of southern sportsmen. A 

 man of wealth and importance, his stables were as large as any in 

 that colony. It is of tradition that, after one of the Maryland race 

 meetings, he made a match with DeLancey between their respective 

 horses for a struck half bushel of Spanish dollars, which Dulany 

 won. The struck half-bushel of coin was an ingenious manner of equal- 

 izing the different currencies. The trouble in this regard is curiously 

 instanced in the refusal of the Marylanclers to stake their money 

 against the Virginia currency at the Leedstown course, on the Poto- 

 mac, in 1773, the Virginia paper having been counterfeited in a 

 manner unparalleled. Of the great races of the last century, that 

 which excited most interest over the whole continent was the match 

 between Selim and True Briton, in April, 1765, over the Philadel- 

 phia course. The stakes were the unusually large sum of one thou- 

 sand pounds. Waters, the owner of True Briton, had challenged the 

 continent to a trial of speed in 1763. The hot headed, eccentric lover of 

 the turf, Leary, answered Waters with an offer to run the unborn foals 

 of their respective animals. Leary had, in some mysterious manner, 

 become possessed of the famous imported stallion, Old England, but 

 there had been no answer to Waters' challenge till Selim's owners 

 took up the glove. Selim carried off the purse. True Briton won 



