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presume that they were as good as the importers 

 could find and afford to buy, for they were fox 

 hunters and hard riders from the beginning of 

 their coming. After BuUe Rock's coming to Vir- 

 ginia, very quickly Dabster, Jolly Ranger, Janus, 

 and Fearnaught followed. 



The South Carolinians were not long behind 

 the Virginians in their importations, and by 1760 

 a jockey club had been established in Charleston, 

 and regular race meetings were held. Many of 

 .the wealthy land owners imported and bred 

 horses for these contests. In the same year that 

 this club was founded, Colonel De Lancey, of 

 New York, brought out Lath from England, and 

 a little later Wildair, the horse supposed by some 

 to have been the great grandsire of the dam of 

 Justin Morgan, founder of the Morgan type of Ver- 

 mont. About the same time there came to New 

 York the Cub Mare and Fair Rachel, both still 

 famous in the pedigrees in the "American Stud 

 Book." These matrons found homes in Virginia, 

 and assisted in the making of those old time 

 "four mile heat" horses, the only kind which our 

 ancestors deemed really first rate. Before the 



