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Hardheart, Truxton & horse racing in antebellum Natchez
On the outskirts of Natchez in 1835, world famous stage actor Tyrone Power watched four horses being exercised at a plantation race track.
Among the animals working out that cold February day was Hardheart whose "time for a mile, they declare here, has never been matched," Power wrote in his journal.
In Adams County and throughout Natchez country, Power found a love for horse racing unmatched anywhere: "The passion for the turf is, I find, yet stronger here, if that be possible, than in the North. One or two persons are this very year going to Europe for the sole purpose of importing horses of high reputation..."
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