52 BREEDING AND REARING OF 



exclusively. The major has, perhaps, the finest jennet 

 in the state, sired by Abran (imported). She is 

 fifteen and one-half hands high, very heavy and 

 stylish ; is a successful breeder and a fine show animal. 

 She is registered. 



Messrs. W. L. Caldwell & Son, of Danville, Ky., 

 are spirited breeders. They are the owners of Giant 

 32, who took the first premium at the State Fair at 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



Mr. Hubble, of Danville, Ky., reared some most 

 excellent jacks and jennets. He bred Brignoli and 

 Luke Blackburn, that were recently sold at his dis- 

 persion sale at fabulous prices. 



The earliest pioneer breeder in Tennessee, as nearly 

 as we can learn, was Colonel James Ridley, of David- 

 son County. He visited Virginia about 1820 and pur- 

 chased a jack called Compromise. He was the sire of 

 Colonel Ridley's Old Wonder, that was considered the 

 largest and best jack of his day in Tennessee. He 

 was to Tennessee what Mammoth was to Kentucky 

 as a pioneer breeder. 



The late Jonathan Curran, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 

 was a breeder of jacks and jennets about the year 

 1830. 



In 1835 or 1836 my father, the late Captain James 

 Knight, visited Virginia and purchased a very fine 

 black jack, with white points, called John Bull. He 

 did business in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and 

 gave satisfaction as a popular breeder. He was said 

 to be the third descendant from the Royal Gift of 

 General Washington. My father also owned a jack 

 in North Carolina about the year 1820. I have an 

 imperfect recollection of this jack, as I was only four 

 or five years old. 



