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formers in the 2:30 list, two of which were phenomenally fast r 

 although their records do not show it. Here I allude to Nettie 

 Burlew and Sorrel Dapper, more generally known as "The 

 Auburn Horse." The latter was a long, leggy, light chestnut, 

 with a tremendous stride, and Hiram Woodruff did not hesitate 

 to say he was a faster horse than Dexter. This Champion was a- 

 sire of excellent quality, although but a few of his progeny were 

 developed. He left six sons that were the sires of forty-four 

 trotters, and seven daughters that produced nine performers. 



CHAMPION (GOODING'S) was a bright bay horse with black 

 points, standing fifteen and three-quarter hands high. He was 

 got by Scobey's Champion, dam the trotting mare Cynthia, by 

 Bartlett's Turk, son of Weddle's imported Turk; grandam Fanny, 

 by Scobey's Black Prince; great-grandam Bett, by Rockplanter, 

 son of Duroc; great-great-grandam Kate, represented to be a 

 Messenger mare. He was foaled 1853, and was bred by Almeron 

 Ott, Cayuga County, New York, and traded to Mr. Stearns, from 

 whom he passed to his late owners, T. W. and W. Gooding, On- 

 tario County, New York. He died June, 1883. This horse was- 

 peddled about in Seneca County at a fee of five dollars, and had 

 a very light patronage among the farmers. At 1? st he was sold, 

 with difficulty, at Canandaigua, for three hundred dollars to the- 

 Messrs. Gooding, and he brought them a handsome income as. 

 long as he lived. As his reputation as a sire of speed spread 

 abroad, the quality of the mares brought to him improved, and 

 among them were some with good trotting inheritance. Of hi& 

 progeny, seventeen entered the 2:30 list, the fastest in 2:21, and 

 they were good campaigners. It is a remarkable fact that only 

 one of his sons proved himself a trotting sire, and he left but a 

 single representative. On the female side of the house he was- 

 more successful, for six of his daughters produced seven per- 

 formers. 



CHARLEY B. was a bay horse, sixteen hands high, and was bred 

 by Charles Burlew, of Union Springs, New York. He was foaled 

 1869, and was got by Scobey's Champion, son of Champion, by 

 Almack, and proved himself the best son of his sire. He was 

 out of a mare well known as "Old Jane" that was the dam of 

 Myrtle with a record of 2:25-^. Several pedigrees have been pro- 

 vided for this mare that did not prove reliable, and they were all 

 careful to endow her with plenty of Messenger blood. After 

 searching for the facts through some years, the only version of it 



