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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, bat 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 friend 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. 

 Barry declined to buy her at any price, as he had 

 horses enough. 



Mr. Genung said her blood made her especially 

 valuable for breeding purposes, as she was by the 

 race-horse Henry, and out of a mare sired by Messen- 

 ger. The next spring, Mr. Berry was in the city, and 



