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Porter was right, but the trouble did not rest with the dam, as 

 he seems to have supposed, for I have seen the original certificate 

 of breeding in the handwriting of Mr. Morris, his breeder, and 

 there is no slip on that side of the pedigree. Mr. Morris was a 

 prominent breeder and racing man for many years and his char- 

 acter was without taint. The pedigree is a very long one and I 

 would be very far from vouching for the truth of the remote 

 extensions, but back to the mare by Cub, imported by Mr. De 

 Lancey, who bred Miss Slammerkin, there can be no mistake. 



In the spring of 1810, then four years old, he was purchased 

 of his breeder by Major William Jones, of Queens County, Long 

 Island, and in the autumn of that year he was trained and ran 

 for the two-mile parse at the old Newmarket Course, Long 

 Island, and it is said gave some evidence that he could run, but 

 after that he was never trained nor started in a race, from which 

 we may conclude he was not a race horse, or his owner, who bred 

 and ran his horses, would have given him another trial. 



In 1811 he was put in the stud and made the season at Hunt- 

 ington, Long Island, in charge of Ebenezer Gould. It is not 

 known where he made the season of 1812, but probably in Orange 

 or Dutchess County. The years 1813-14-15 he was in charge of 

 my late highly esteemed and venerable correspondent, David W. 

 Jones, on the borders of Queens and Suffolk counties, Long 

 Island, where he covered about two hundred and fifty mares. 

 In 1816 he was in one of the river counties, in 1817 at Fishkill, 

 and 1818 at Townsend Cock's, Long Island. In later years he 

 changed hands many times, at from two hundred to two hundred 

 and fifty dollars, and there is no published trace of him till we 

 find that he made the seasons of 1825 and 1829 at Pleasant Valley, 

 Dutchess County, and he died the property of Benjamin Ger- 

 mond, on the farm of Azariah Arnold in Dutchess County, about 

 1831. 



He took his beautiful color from his dam and transmitted it 

 with great uniformity. His general structure was after the Mes- 

 senger model, especially in the large bones and joints of his 

 limbs. His head was long and bony and his ears were large and 

 somewhat heavy. He was too high on his legs and his general 

 appearance was coarse, all of which he transmitted. In speaking 

 of his offspring Mr. Jones remarks: "When young they were 

 somewhat leggy and lathy, but spirited, stylish and slashing in 

 action. When matured, he must indeed be fastidious who would 



