Grosvenor was intensely interested in the race, and also in the new sights he was seeing.
"Still," he said, "if it were not for the colored people I could imagine with ease that I was back at a country meeting at home.

Do you know anything, Lennox, about these horses, Blenheim and Cressy--patriotic fellows their owners must be--and could you give a chap advice about laying a small wager ?" "I know nothing about them except what Stuart and Cabell say." "What do they say ?" "Stuart knows that Blenheim is the fastest horse in Virginia, and Cabell knows that Cressy is, and so there the matter stands until the race is run." "I think I'll put a pound on Blenheim, nevertheless.

Blenheim has a much more modern sound than Cressy, and I'm all for modernity." There was an excellent race track, the sport already being highly developed in Virginia, and, the next day being beautiful, the seats were filled very early in the morning.

The governor with his wife and daughters was present, and so were many other notables.

Robert, Tayoga and Grosvenor were in a group of nearly fifty young Virginians.