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spring he came 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, 

 Dubois had a partner, William Burr, a horseman, now 

 of Hoboken. What time Dubois owned him, we can- 

 not 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, Colum- 

 bia 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 dollars. 

 This was in the fall of eighteen hundred and forty- 

 nine, and in eighteen hundred and fifty he stood for 

 mares in Goshen, and served fifty-four mares and got 

 forty five colts, at fifteen dollars per colt. One of 

 these colts we well remember He was called the 

 Randall colt ; and, we are very credibly informed, will 

 make a season in this county this year, under the name 



