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1*791 — March Id. — New Market Course. — 4 mile heats. Col. Alston's 

 ch. m. Betsey Baker ^ aged , 9st. 4, beat in two heats, after a fine contest 

 Col. Washington's ch. m. Rosetta, 6 years, 9st. 



March 3d. — ?> mile heats. Mr. Burns' Cincinnatus beat Mr, Sum- 

 ter's Plenipo, Col. Thompson's Whistle Jacket, Mr. Fenwick's Dungan- 

 non, Mr. Wigfall's Mercur}^, and Mr. McPherson's Wanton. Plenipo 

 took the first heat, Cincinnatus winning the 2d and 3d. 



March 4th. — 2 mile heats. — Gen. Sumter's Ugly beat Mr. William 

 Moultrie, jr.'s, Pantaloon, Mr. Fenwick's Angeline, Mr.John B. Irving's 

 Battledore, Mr. St. John's Munster Lass, Mr. McPherson's Wanton, Mr. 

 Hughes' Cephalus, Mr. Fuller's Sampson, Mr. Washington's Childers, 

 and Mr. Bellinger's ^]olus. 



I have said that Betsey Baker was rather small and delicate. Like 

 her famous competitor Rosetta, she was a chesnut, but she was unlike 

 her in size — Rosetta being nearly sixteen hands high, with a prodigious 

 shoulder. Betsey Baker and Rosetta, like Shark and Commerce after 

 them, were rivals for several years. They often met, running with alter- 

 nate success, as will be seen by the above summary. Rosetta, after 

 leaving the turf, produced a bay colt, Achilles, by Marplot; General 

 Washington gave him to Mr. Ancrum, who sold him to Mr. Nisbitt. 

 He was large, but of no account as a racer. Betsey Baker, also, had 

 produce by Marplot ; none of them ever distinguished themselves. 



An attentive friend writing to me in reference to the contests be- 

 tween Betsey Baker and Rosetta, "remarks : " I was quite young when I 

 witnessed their races, but I recollect the enthusiasm which prevailed on 

 those occasions. I I'emember meeting Betsey Baker at the corner of 

 Friend and Tradd streets, on her return to Col. Alston's stables in King 

 street, after having beaten Rosetta in 1791 — a great crowd following 

 her." 



This was the last year of the races over the New Market Course. In 

 the following year (1792) the South Carolina Jockey Club moved to 

 the Washington Course, where it has ever since continued to hold its 

 meetings. 



The original proprietors and owners of the Washington Race Course 

 near Charleston, S. C, were Gen. C. C. Pinckney, Gen. Washington, 

 O'Brien Smith, John Wilson, Jas. Ladson, Wm. Alston, H. M. Rutledge, 

 Gab'l Manigault, Gen. Read, Col. Mitchell, Gen. Wade Hampton (three 

 shares, bought of A. Johnson, Jas. Miller, and Dr. Moultrie), James 

 Burn, Capt. White, L. Campbell, Wm. Moultrie, Gen. McPherson, Col. 

 McPherson, Col. Morris, E. Fen wick, Wm. McCleod, sold afterwards to 

 John Parker. 



