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dam by Place's "White Turk, g. g. g. g. g. g. gr. dam by Dodsworth, g. 

 g. g. g. g. g. g. gr. dam Layton's violet Barb mare. 



Moses was by the Chedworth Foxhunter, dam by the Portland Arabian, 

 gr. dam, the dam of the Duke of Bridge water's Star, she by Richard's 

 Arabian. 



Gabriel was brought into Virginia, and became, like the preceding 

 horses, very famous for splendor of his get and their great performances. 



He got Oscar, Post Boy, and others. The former of whom, dam by4 

 imp. Medley, bred by General Tayloe, is his most celebrated son. He 

 was a good runner, and his blood tells in many of our best modern stal- 

 lions and mares, especially in the Southern States. 



Fifth Bedford — Foaled in 1792, imported into Virginia. He was 

 got by Dungannon, dam Fairy, by Highflyer, gr. dam Fairy Queen by 

 Young Cade, g. gr. dam Routh s Black Eyes by Crab, g. g. gr. dam the 

 Warlock Galloway, g. g. g. gr. dam by the Byerly Turk. 



Dungannon was by Eclipse out of Aspasla, by Herod, gr. dam Doris 

 by Blank, g. gr. dam Helen by Spectator, g. g. gr. dam Daphne by the 

 Godolphin Arabian, g. g. g. gr. dam by Fox, g. g. g. g. gr. dam by 

 Childers, g. g. g. g. g. gr. dam by Makeless, g. g. g. g. g. g. gr. dam, 

 Sister to Honeycomb Punch, by the Taffolet Barb. 



The year of Bedford's importation is r^ot exactly known. He was a 

 great stallion, and there is hardly a family of horses in the Southern 

 States which do not in some degree, more or less, partake of his blood. 

 He was a singularly formed horse — a rich bay — with a peculiar elevation 

 on his rump, amounting in appearance to an unsightliness, if not to an 

 absolute deformity. This mark, known as the Bedford Hump, he has 

 transmitted to his posterity, and, whatever may have been the original 

 opinion as to its beauty, it has been worn by so many celebrated winners, 

 that it has come of late to be regarded as a foreshadowing of excellence, 

 rather than a deformity. It has been worn by Eclipse, Black Maria, her 

 brother, Shark, Boston, Argyle, and many other horses of great note. 



Bedford got; ^olus, Cup-Bearer, Fairy, Lady Bedford, Lottery, 

 Nancy Air, Shylock and others not inferior in repute. 



On the first settlement in Tennessee, previous to its admission as t 

 State into the Union, the early settlers began taking with them excellent 

 stock from Virginia and Maryland, and the blood of Janus, Jolly Roger, 

 Morton's Traveller, Pacolet and other worthies of the olden times, still 

 percolates in rich luxuriance through the veins of their noble steeds. It 

 has been always a gallant and a sporting State ; and I feel proud and 

 happy — the rather that the history of the blood stock of Tennessee and 

 of the neighboring State of Kentucky is nearly identical — to be allowed 

 the opportunity of presenting to my readers a most valuable memoir of 



