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I have no reason to doubt it. He was bred by Joseph H. God- 

 win, of New York, and foaled the property of Dr. Spaulding, of 

 {rreenupsburg, Kentucky. He made some seasons in the hands 

 of Dr. Herr, of Lexington, Kentucky, was bought 1868 by R. S. 

 Strader, and passed to General W. T. Withers, of Lexington, 

 where he died 1882. He was engaged in several races and made 

 a record of 2:35^. He put four in the 2:30 list, and he left six- 

 teen sons that were the sires of forty-six trotters and seven 

 pacers. His daughters have produced well, thirty -four of them 

 having produced forty-two trotters and seven pacers. This 

 shows him to have been a better horse than his sire and better 

 than any of the other sons of his sire. 



GEORGE M. PATCHED was a large bay horse, fully sixteen hands 

 high and heavily proportioned. He was bred by H. F. Sickles, 

 Monmouth County, New Jersey, for Richard F. Carman, of New 

 York, the owner of his dam. He was got by the original Cas- 

 sius M. Clay, and his dam was a light chestnut mare, owned and 

 driven on the road by Mr. Carman. As the blood and origin of 

 this mare was for many years unknown, it is necessary to go into 

 some particulars concerning it. From 1835 two brothers, 

 Thomas and Richard Tone, were contractors on the streets in the 

 northern part of New York City. Two or three years afterward 

 Richard bought or traded for a large, strong sorrel mare to work 

 in one of their dirt carts. It was represented that she had lost a 

 foal shortly before and she was thin in flesh and looked coarse. 

 When she moved out of a walk she always went into a pace, and that 

 seemed to be her natural gait. They kept this mare at work in 

 the cart for several years and sometimes turned her out to pas- 

 ture in a small field at the foot of "Break-neck" hill, adjoining 

 a pasture owned by the Bradhurst family. One morning a two- 

 year-old stallion colt, owned by Samuel Bradhurst, was found in 

 the pasture with the big pacing mare. He had broken down the 

 fence between the two pastures and gotten the big mare with 

 foal. In due time she dropped a light chestnut filly, and when 

 weaned, Thomas Tone bought this filly from his brother Richard, 

 and at two years old commenced working her to his wagon. She 

 had very severe treatment for so young an animal and went amiss, 

 when Thomas sold her to James Scanlon, a blacksmith, and after 

 a time he sold her to Richard F. Carman for a driving mare. 

 Like her dam, when she started off she would pace, but after 

 going some distance she would strike a trot and go very fast. 



