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there were mares there fit to mate with Diomed's 

 grandsons. 



The Whip family were also well represented, 

 and among the other English stallions taken 

 thither may be mentioned Buzzard, Royalist, 

 Dragon, Speculator, Spread Eagle, Forrester, 

 Alderman, Eagle, Pretender, Touchstone and 

 Archer. All a reader, who wishes to go deeper, 

 needs to do is to look at the stud book and see 

 what pure and royal blood the Kentuekians were 

 working with to make that foundation stock 

 which made the State so famous, that at this time 

 there are more Thoroughbreds foaled there than 

 in all the other States of the Union combined. 



The breeders there were amateurs, however — 

 men who bred for the love of the horse and 

 the love of sport — until Mr. Robert A. Alex- 

 ander began his operations at the famous Wood- 

 burn farm, where the breeding of Thoroughbreds 

 was more extensively carried on than in any 

 other place in the world. Mr. Alexander was a 

 native Kentuckian, but educated at Cambridge 

 in England. He died at forty-eight, but he gave a 

 great impetus to stock breeding in Kentucky. 



