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mile races, and never had him beaten. At five years of age 

 he served mares at most any price, and was driven to a 

 butcher wagon. He then began to show a fine trotting step. 

 This was in eighteen hundred and forty-two; and the next 

 season he received about the same treatment, and could out- 

 trot any horse in the whole country, and haul that butcher- 

 wagon after him. Mr. Berry often made the remark, that he 

 had the most bottom and best game of any horse he ever saw. 

 In the spring of eighteen hundred and forty-four, he was 

 fixed up a little, and advertised to stand for mares at New 

 Milford and Warwick, Orange County, N. Y.; to insure a 

 mare in foal for seven dollars; pedigree given in full; and 

 warranted to haul a wagon on the road a mile in three min- 

 utes. From some cause he served but very few mares in 

 Warwick, we think not any. In August of the same season 

 (eighteen hundred and forty-four), Mr. Berry sold him to 

 Mr. John Blauvelt, a silver-smith in New York City, for 

 three hundred and fifty dollars and a set of single harness. 

 Mr. Blauvelt used him for a road horse, and, as he says, the 

 best he ever rode behind, for pluck, bottom, and speed; but 

 the hard roads and hard drives soon showed the weak 

 points of his dam his feet giving out, and quartercracks 

 making their appearance, he was sent up to Mr. Berry to be 

 wintered and cured. The next spring he come out all right; 

 but Mr. Blauvelt, apprehending that again the same cause 

 might produce the same effect, traded him off to Cyrus 

 Dubois, of Ulster County, New York, for a grey gelding, at 

 one time owned by Sheriff Westbrook of that county. Du- 

 bois had a partner, William Burr, a horseman, now of Ho- 

 boken. What time Dubois owned him we cannot ascertain; 

 but he stood the horse a part of the time in Orange County. 

 Dubois traded him to Jas. Storm, of Hudson, for a bay 

 mare; and after a few days Storm sold him to Walter 

 Shafer, of Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York; who kept 

 him one or two seasons, then sold him to Edmond Seeley 

 and Hiram Smith, of Goshen, for seven hundred and fifty 

 doHars. This was in the fall of eighteen hundred and forty- 



