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under the careful management of his new owner, rapidly im- 

 proved, and was shown the same fall at the fair of the Orange 

 County Agricultural Society at Goshen. 



At this exhibition he was led by the side of a horse, and 

 was equipped with a white bridle, martingals, and girth, a 

 fact often spoken of by men who were boys at that time. 

 This brought the colt into some little notoriety, which arose, 

 perhaps, more from the style of his equipment than anything 

 else, as it was something novel in those days to see one so 

 young exhibited in that style and manner. This was in the 

 fall of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and he was again 

 shown in the fall of eighteen hundred and fifty at the same 

 place, and under circumstances equally as well calculated to 

 attract attention. 



In the spring of eighteen hundred and fifty-one we saw 

 him again, at the residence of his owner, and so greatly had 

 he improved, and so rapid had been his growth, that al- 

 though he was but two years old, he resembled in almost 

 every particular a fully-developed horse. 



Mr. Kysdyk, during this season, allowed him to cover 

 four mares, as appears by Mr. K.'s books, which we have been 

 kindly permitted to inspect, and to which we are indebted 

 for much of the information hereinafter contained. 



He got three colts from these mares (two horses and one 

 mare), and no price is charged for the services upon the 

 book, an omission, however, which never thereafter occurs. 

 One of these colts soon thereafter came into the hands of 

 Major J. Seeley Edsall, of Goshen, and under his careful 

 handling soon proved himself a superior horse. 



The Major kept him for mares four years at Goshen, and 

 then sold him to Mr. Alexander, of Kentucky; he, however, 

 had in the meantime become the father of the filly now so 

 widely known throughout this country as Goldsmith's Maid. 

 We might mention many other " good ones" from him, but 

 for the present must trace the history of his sire. 



In speaking of this Harnbletonian's first season it is a 

 fact worthy of remark, that a very large percentage of his 



