350 THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



(ALEXANDER'S) was a brown horse, foaled about 1846, 

 got by the Morse Horse, son of European; dam one of a pair of 

 brown mares purchased by John N. Slocum of Samuel Slocum, a 

 Quaker of Leroy, Jefferson County, New York, and represented to 

 be by Magnum Bonum. These mares passed to Mr. Russell, and 

 from him to Titcomb & Waldron, who bred the better of the two to 

 the Morse Horse, and the produce was Alexander's Norman. This 

 colt passed through several hands till he reached Henry L. Barker, 

 of Clinton, New York, and about 1860, he sold him to the late 

 R. A. Alexander, of Woodburn Farm, Kentucky. He died 1878. 

 The original version of this pedigree, as put upon Mr. Alexander 

 and advertised by him, as were many others, was wholly fictitious 

 on the side of the dam. He was not retained long at Woodburn 

 Farm. He does not seem to have been a uniform transmitter of 

 speed, but when it did appear it was apt to to be of a high order. 

 He left but two representatives in the 2:30 list, Lula, 2:15, with 

 fifty-six heats, and May Queen, 2:20, with twenty-five heats. He 

 left four sons that became the sires of fifty-eight performers and 

 thirteen daughters that produced nineteen performers. Such 

 sons as Swigert and Blackwood speak well for his transmitting 

 powers. 



SWIGERT was a brown horse, foaled 1866, got by Alexander's 

 Norman, son of the Morse Horse; dam Blandina, by Mambrino 

 Chief; grandam the Burch Mare, by Brown Pilot, son of Copper 

 Bottom, pacer. He was bred at Woodburn Farm, Kentucky, 

 and when young became the property of Richard Richards, of 

 Racine, Wisconsin, where he remained many years and passed to 

 F. J. Ayres, of Burlington, Wisconsin. As a prepotent sire this 

 horse stands high in the list of great horses. This may be ac- 

 counted for in great part by the speed-producing qualities which 

 he inherited from his dam. I am not informed as to the amount 

 of training he may have had, nor of the rate of speed he may 

 have been able to show. He placed forty-four trotters and two 

 pacers in the 2:30 list. Thirty-three of his sons became the sires 

 of sixty-one trotters and fourteen pacers. Twenty-three of his 

 daughters produced twenty-one trotters and six pacers. From 

 the number of his sons that have already shown their ability to 

 get trotters, it is fair to presume that his name will be per- 

 petuated. He died in 1892. 



BLACKWOOD was a black horse, foaled 1866, got by Alexander's 

 Norman, son of the Morse Horse; dam by Mambrino Chief; 



