Is he thy brothex' ? 



Not so ill kin. 



Not in the fashion thiit the world puts on, 

 But Brother in the heart. 



Let me not be accused of , pedautry, for having selected the title of 

 Brethren of the Turf for the foUowincf sketches and ondits of the racing 

 men of South Carolina. The title is not without its force and meaning, 

 which will be readily recognized by all who knew the men of whom I 

 treat. Though carrying out the principle of emulation to its last de- 

 gree, they never failed, in their intercourse with each other, to practise 

 those amenities which secured uninterrupted harmony — making the 

 Turf, in their hands, in more senses than one, a school of good breeding, 

 and themselves a noble band of brothers! 



On the revival of Racing, in South Carolina, after the Revolution, the 

 most conspicuous gentlemen ujion the Turf were Col. William Alston, 

 Col. Washington, E. Fenwicke, Esq., Gen. McPherson, and Gen. Wade 

 Hampton. 



Col. William Alston, of Waccaraavv, for many years had the most 

 extensive stud of all his contemporaries in South Carolina. Among his 

 most distinguished and popular mares from which he bred, was the 

 " Brilliant mare," bred by Mr. Fenwicke, and got by the imported liorse 

 Matchem, nut of a maie by Brilliant. 



The Tartar maic bv old Flimnap, out of a mare by old Pharaoh. 



Kitty Fisher, b\' Oscar, dam by imported Vampire. 



Hope, by Shark, dnm by imported Fearnought. 



Circe, by Ai'iel, out of Lady Northumberland, imported by the Hon. 

 John Tayloe, of Mount Airy, in Virginia. 



Iris, by Marplot, out of Nancy Dawson. 



Marplot mare, by Marplot, out of Betsey Baker, 



Kitty Bull, (imported,) by John Bull, out of Lord Grosvenor's Isa- 

 bella by Eclipse. 



Grey mare, by Slouch, dam by Medley. 



Anvilina, by Anvil, out of Augusta. 



Peggy, (imported,) by Trumpator, out of Peggy, sister to Postmaster. 



Chesnut filly, by Mambrino, out of a sister to Naylor's Sally. 



Stirling mare, by Stirling, out of a Mambrino mare. 



Col. Alston also bred from Nancy Dawson and Betsey Baker, 



