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In the preceding list there are but two fillies that lived to produce 

 anything, and one of them is lost from sight. The produce of 

 the first will be given below. The Patriot filly that went to 

 Maryland was a brown, and of good size, but nothing further is 

 known of her. 



The Tom Thumb gelding of 1845 was in 1869 a good road 

 horse, and was owned by George S. Conklin. He was showy and 

 stylish without very much speed. Her fifth foal, Hambletonian, 

 is known wherever the trotting horse is known. 



This mare was a trotter of no ordinary merit. She was never 

 in any races, so far as known, except they might have been of a 

 private nature, but after she passed into the hands of Peter 

 Seely her speed was pretty well developed. This is not only 

 shown by the advance in her price from owner to owner, but it 

 appears to be a well-established fact that when four years old 

 Peter Seely had her at the Union Course, and he there gave her 

 two trials to saddle, the first in 2:43 and the second in 2:41. 

 For a time I was skeptical about these trials, but they seem to be 

 beyond question. This is considerably faster than any other of 

 the get of imported Bellfounder ever trotted in this country, 

 and from this we may conclude that her inheritance from her 

 dam was the great factor in her speed. 



OXE EYE, the dam of the Kent mare, was a brown, about 

 fifteen hands and an inch high, with two white feet and perhaps 

 a little white in her face. With the taste Mr. Seely had of the 

 Messenger blood in Silvertail he wanted more of it; and when 

 Townsend Cock sent the famous Bishop's Hambletonian to 

 Goshen in 1814, Mr. Seely bred his daughter of Messenger to 

 this son of Messenger and the produce was One Eye. I do not 

 learn that this mare was handsome, but she was an animal of 

 most remarkable courage and endurance. The load was never 

 too heavy nor the road too long. Withal, she had a will of her 

 own and was a little hard to manage unless she was worked con- 

 stantly. One day when on her mettle she got an eye knocked 

 out by accident, and, hence, her name; but the great quality of 

 this mare was her remarkable trotting action. Those familiar 

 with her gait, and entirely competent to judge, are enthusiastic 

 in the opinion that no trotter of the present day ever surpassed 

 her in a grand open trotting step. If the patience and skill 

 brought into use in developing the modern trotter had been ex- 

 pended on her, she doubtless would have surpassed all of her 



