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Mr. Carman paid one hundred dollars for her and he drove her 

 beside another that he paid fifteen hundred for, and his fast daily 

 drives from Carmanville down to the city soon tested the respec- 

 tive merits of the two mares. The hundred-dollar mare could 

 outlast the other and had to help her along toward the end of 

 the drive. In time she was foundered and permanently stiffened 

 and that was the reason she was sent to Mr. Sickles to be bred. 



We must now look after the two-year-old colt that was the sire 

 of this mare. Robert L. Stevens, of Hoboken, owned the famous 

 race mare, Betsey Ransom, and with others he bred from her 

 the two fillies, Itasca and Frolic. In 1837 these two mares were 

 owned by Samuel Bradhurst, who manifested a sporting disposi- 

 tion, very much against the wishes of his father. In 1837 he 

 bred these two mares to imported Trustee, then standing at 

 Union Course, Long Island, and the produce were Head'em 

 and Fanny Ransom. It is not known what became of Fanny 

 Ransom, but he continued to own Head'em for some years and 

 ran him in 1841 at the Union Course and beat the imported colt 

 Baronet, by Spencer. There seems to be no other trace of his 

 running or his stud services. It was in 1840, therefore, that he 

 jumped the fence and in 1841 that the dam of George M. Patchen 

 was foaled. George Canavan, Mr. Bradhurst's coachman, 

 says there were no other foals of any description bred by Mr. 

 Bradhurst. These facts were gleaned personally and separately 

 from Tone and Canavan, and as they complement and sustain 

 each other, they must be accepted as the best information extant 

 on the breeding of this great horse. His dam was by Head'em, 

 a son of Trustee, out of a mare by American Eclipse, a grandson 

 of Messenger, and she was a pacer and a trotter. His grandam 

 was a pacer of unknown breeding. 



In 1851 he was purchased for four hundred dollars from Mr. 

 Sickles by John Buckley, of Bordentown, New Jersey, and a few 

 months afterward he sold a half interest in him to Dr. Long- 

 street, of the same place, and he remained their joint property till 

 1858, when Mr. Buckley sold his half interest to Mr. Joseph Hall, 

 of Rochester, New York. He commenced his remarkable career 

 on the turf in 1855 and it continued till 1863. In 1858 he was 

 engaged in the first race that gave him a national reputation. 

 This was against no less a celebrity than Ethan Allen, and he was 

 distanced, leaving Ethan with a clear title to the stallion cham- 

 pionship. In 1860 he turned the tables on his old rival and beat 



