STUD BOOK. 25 



owned by Edmond Seeley and Hiram Smith, and recognized 

 him at once as the same horse owned and raised by him till 

 he was seven years of age This Mr. Berry told us; which, 

 we claim, connects the last link with the first; and we simply 

 mention this because Uncle Edmond did not give him the 

 same pedigree. He claimed his dam was a Canuck, or Canada 

 mare; therefore, some claimed he was not the horse raised 

 by Mr. Berry. His lasting qualities, not only with him, 

 but with his progeny, should be a proof most manifest that 

 his mother was no Canuck Being a personal friend of 

 Henry H. Berry, we shall, as briefly as possible, give his own 

 words as he told us in a conversation we had with him on 

 this subject. In the fall of eighteen hundred and thirty-four 

 Mr. Berry was in the City of New York, and a particular 

 friend of his Joseph Genung urged him to buy a very fine 

 mare, for breeding purposes, that a Mend of his owned on 

 Long Island, and, on account of being badly used and driven 

 on the hard roads, her feet had given out, and she was offered 

 cheap. Mr. Berry declined to buy her at any price, as he 

 had horses enough. 



Mr. Genung said her 6/00^ made her especially valuable 

 for breeding purposes, as she was by the race-horse Henry, 

 and out of a mare sired by Messenger. The next spring, 

 Mr. Berry was in the city, and found that his Mend Genung 

 had bought the mare himself; and when he came to see her, 

 he liked her so well that he did not hesitate a moment in 

 making her his own. This was in the spring of eighteen 

 hundred and thirty-five, and Mr. Berry owned and lived on a 

 large and beautiful farm on Pompton Plains, New Jersey. 

 At the time he bought this mare, she was a beautiful bay 

 animal, somewhat advanced in years, sixteen hands high, with 

 a star and snip in forehead, and both hind feet white above 

 the ankles a smooth and hansome mare, with a good set of 

 limbs, but bad feet. Mr. Genung was a bachelor, and 

 boarded many years in the family of Mr. Berry's brother, in 

 the city, but died soon after he sold this mare, and thus all 

 hopes of tracing her pedigree more definitely were cut of 



