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trot any horse in the whole country, and hanl 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 war- 

 ranted to haul a wagon on the road a mile in three 

 minutes. 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 quarter- 

 cracks making their appearance, he was sent up to 

 Mr. Berry, to be wintered and cured. The next 



