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an honorable sportsman, and a high mettled Racer of the nineteenth 

 century. 



Col. Hampton commenced his racing career in the right way, with 

 none but good ones, and has, in consequence, ever since been eminently 

 successful. One of his most brilliant campaigns was the season of 1836, 

 when, at Columbia, he won three days, every time he .started. He won 

 the Colt Stake with his Godolphin colt Lath ; the Jockey Ckib Purse, 

 4 mile heats, with Bay Maria, and the Hampton Plate with Charlotte 

 Russe, full sister to Trifle. These Races were won without a broken 

 heat, and against good fields of horses. Immediately after, over the 

 Washington Course, near Charleston, he was also eminently successful ; 

 also at Augusta, Ga. Kitty Heath, 3 yrs., by Eclipse, dam by Alfred, 

 was in his stable at the time. Kitty, with the three mentioned above, 

 started ten times during the campaign, and lost but one race. 



The Colonel deserves success, for he is not only a gentleman of high 

 charaf^ter, but of great liberality on the Turf. He was for many years a 

 very liberal buyer, giving the highest prices for horses that took his 

 fancy, and promised well in other States, as well as having purchased 

 largely at the annual sale of the royal stud at Hampton Court, in Eng- 

 land, as long as those sales continued. The following enumeration of 

 his blood stock imported from England ; his native blood stock, and 

 horses in training, autumn of 1842, may be taken as a fair criterion by 

 which the extent of his breeding and racing establishment may be 

 judged. 



IMPORTATIONS OF BLOOD STOCK BY W. HAMPTON. 



1835. — B. c. Monarch, by Priam, out of Delphine. 



B. f. Emily, by Emilius, out of Elizabeth, by Rainbow. 



B. f Lilly, by The Colonel, out of Fleur de Lis, by Bourbon, given to 

 Col. Fludd. 



B. f by Priam, out of sister to Spurn ante, sold Col. J. S. Preston. 



Br. m, Emmy, by Magistrate, out of Emmeline, covered by Camel, 

 sold Col. J. S. Preston. 



Ch. m. Tears, by Woful, out of Miss Stephenson, covered by Defence, 

 sold Col. J. S. Preston. 



Ch. c. Foal, by Defence, out of Tears, sold Col. J. S. Preston. 



1836. — Br. c, by The Colonel, out of Posthuma, dead. 



B. f. by Emilius, out of Ada, (sister to Augusta,) exchanged with Col. 

 Butler. 



Ch. f. The Queen, own sister to Monarch, sold Dr. Merritt. 



Ch. f. by The Colonel, out of Peri, sold Gen. Adams. 

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