[2] Proprietors Dr. Julius C Branch, a Virginia Native, and University of Pennsylvania Medical School graduate;[3] local French-Creole American nobleman, playboy,[4] planter, politician, duelist, writer, horse breeder, land developer, and President of the Louisiana State Senate Bernard de Marigny; and Virginia, Tidewater, scion, Henry A. Tayloe, whose father John Tayloe III of The Octagon was the leader on American Turf, bred the first great American Sire Sir Archy, whose sire Diomed, first winner of the Epsom Derby, Tayloe III had imported from England to his stud farm Mount Airy.

[5] The First Race was the Creole Purse $1,000, Mile Heats, run between Sosthene Allian's Tresorrier, John R. Miller's Lord of the Isles, Robert J. Barrow's Tom Jones, Fergus Duplanitier Louisianese, and Y.N.

The Second Race, $250 Purse, Mile Heats, run between: Sosthene Allain's Lavinia, Fergus Duplantier's Britannia, Thomas J.

Well's Taglioni, Henry A. Tayloe's Tom Thurman, and John F. Miller's Orange Bay.

Jockey Club Purse $1,200, Two Mile Heats, run between Alexander Barrow's Louisa Bascombe, Minor Kenner's Richard of York, Fergus Duplantier Wren.