7 Carson, Colonial Virginians at Play, 120-22.

8Diary of Thomas Isham, 5 Sept. 1672; James Rice, History of the British Turf (n.p., 1879), 151.

9 Fairfax Harrison, “Racing in Colonial Virginia,” VMHB 1 (1895), 293.

10 Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 19 Aug. 1785, Jefferson Papers, ed., Boyd, VIII, 407.