For the performances of Maria I have relied mainly upon her memoir published in the sixth volume of the American Turf Register, which was written by Judge Thos. Barry, of Gallatin, who obtained the facts from Captain Haney in his lifetime, which are corroborated substantially by Uncle Berry. In my last communication, in referring to the race of Blucher and Walk-in-the-Water at Natchez, I made a mistake as the time when the Jockey Club changed the rule taking twenty-one pounds off of Blucher. It was not done the night before the race, as stated, but it occurred some time before. It was the evening before the race that Col. A. L. Bingaman, a member of the Club, moved to have the rule rescinded so as to make their weight equal, but his motion was voted down, and Blucher carried one hundred pounds and Walk-in-the-Water one hundred and twenty-one pounds. B. C. Oscar, foaled in spring of 1814, bred by the Rev. Hubbard Saunders, of Sumner County, Tennessee, stood without a rival on the Tennessee turf in his day. He never paid a forfeit or lost a heat, nor did he ever meet a competitor able to put him to his top speed. His pedigree is not only pure, but rich and choice. He was got by Wilkes’ Wonder (he by Imported Diomed out of Mary Gray by Tippoo Saib, the dam of Pacolet). First dam—Rosey Clack, by Imp. Saltram. Second dam—Camilla, by Symmes’ Wildair, the best son of Imp. Fearnought. Third dam—Minerva, by Imp. Obscurity. Fourth dam—Diana, by Clodius. Fifth dam—Sally Painter, by Imp. Sterling. Sixth dam—Imp Silver, by Belsize Arabian. Seventh dam—By Croft’s Partner. Eighth dam—Sister to Roxana, by Bald Galloway. Ninth dam—By Akaster Turk. Tenth dam—By Leeds’ Arabian. Eleventh dam—By Spanker. This pedigree, in the language of my late friend, the Rev. Hardy M. Cryer, “is pure as the icicle which hung at the north corner of Diana’s Temple.”