.150 THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



First Koyals. She was a black mare and after she was sold out 

 of the service she was called "Black Warrior/' and this name 

 was transmitted to her son. This mare was for a long time repre- 

 sented as the dam of Royal George, but she was the dam of his 

 sire. This horse was bred at Belleville,, Ontario, and about 1840 

 a certain Mr. Johnston was moving from Belleville to Michigan. 

 He had this horse with him, which, becoming lame on the way, 

 he traded to a Mr. Barnes, living about twenty miles south of 

 London, Ontario. He was a valuable horse and left many very 

 useful animals. Many of his get were pacers,, and he was kept by 

 Mr. Barnes till he died. 



Royal George was a brown-bay horse, foaled about 1842, and 

 was got by Warrior, son of Tippoo. His dam was the off one of 

 -a pair of bay mares taken to that vicinity from Middlebury, Ver- 

 mont, by a Mr. Billington. This mare got her foot in a log 

 bridge and the injury made her a comparative cripple for life. 

 Being thus unfitted for road work, Mr. Billington sold or traded 

 her to Mr. Barnes. She was bred to Warrior and produced Royal 

 George. It is said by those who knew both animals, that this 

 mare was a better trotter than Warrior, and from this springs the 

 argument that Royal George had a trotting inheritance from his 

 dam as well as from his sire. To learn whence this inheritance 

 came, I have labored assiduously for years without being able to 

 technically determine it. The single fact that her sire in Ver- 

 mont was known as "the Bristol Horse," is beyond all doubt, but 

 as Mr. Billington was not living when this search was commenced, 

 it has not been possible to determine just what horse is meant by 

 "Bristol Horse." At one time Harris' Hambletonian was known 

 very widely as "Bristol Grey" or "Bristol Horse," and this is the 

 only horse in the records so designated. It may, therefore, be 

 assumed as more than a probability that this was the sire of the 

 dam of Royal George. 



When three or four years old he was sold by Mr. Barnes to 

 James Forshee, and he was known as "the Forshee Horse" for 

 several years. He was sixteen hands high, not very handsome, 

 but well formed, with plenty of substance and stamina, good 

 action, and a first class "business" horse for anything that was 

 wanted of him. In the stud, at low prices, he was largely 

 patronized, and during the other months of the year he was em- 

 ployed in all kinds of drudgery. From Forshee he passed to 

 Frank Hunger, and from Munger to Mr. Doherty, of St. Gather- 



