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them the famous pacing gelding, Hoosier Tom, 2:19^. One of 

 his Indiana sons passed into the hands of William Gray, of Rush 

 County, Indiana, and became known as Gray^s Tom Hal. Noth- 

 ing is known of the dam of this horse. He was the sire of Little 

 Gipsey, trotter, 2:22, and Limber Jack, pacer, 2:18, besides six 

 daughters that produced nine performers. 



About 1863-4 Mr. Shropshire, Jr., a son of the owner of the 

 original Tom Hal, brought a little roan Tom Hal horse to Rush- 

 ville, Indiana, where he stood a number of years and was known 

 as Shropshire's Tom Hal. This horse was probably by Lail's 

 Tom Hal, as he was too young to be by the original of the name. 

 He was a fast pacer, but nothing is known of his progeny or his- 

 tory. The locating of this Indiana branch of the family is of 

 particular interest, for.it shows a concentration of pacing blood 

 that was doubtless a strong reinforcement to Blue Bull. 



TOM HAL (KITTRELL'S) was a large bay horse and a pacer, 

 bought by Major M. B. Kittrell in 1850 of Simeon Kirtly, near 

 Centerville, Bourbon County, Kentucky, and taken to Middle 

 Tennessee. His sire was represented to have been a large pac- 

 ing bay horse that was brought from Canada, thereby implying 

 that he was the original of the name, brought to Kentucky. 

 While it is possible that the original Mason horse may have been 

 the sire of Major KittrelPs horse, the size and color of that horse 

 do not correspond with what has been accepted as facts. It is 

 altogether more probable that the sire of the Tennessee horse was a 

 son of the original Tom Hal, as the roan color seems to be 

 strongly fixed in all branches of the family. 



TOM HAL JR. (GIBSON'S) was a roan horse, foaled 1860. Got 

 by Kittrell's Tom Hal; dam (bred by John Leonard), by Adam's 

 Stump, pacer; grandam said to be by Cummings' Whip, pacer. 

 Bred by H. C. Saunders, Nashville, Tennessee; kept a number 

 of years by T. D. Moore, Petersburg, Tennessee, afterward 

 owned by Polk Bros, and Major Campbell Brown, of Springhill, 

 Tennessee. Adams' Stump was a roan horse and a fast pacer 

 and he was not only the sire of Julia Johnson, the dam of this 

 horse, but also of the dam of Bonesetter. He died of old age, 

 July, 1890. The strong concentration of pacing blood in his 

 veins gave him unusual power in transmitting his inherited habit 

 of action. He put fourteen representatives in the 2:30 list, and 

 what is unprecedented, they are all pacers. 



BROWX HAL is a brown horse, as his name indicates, foaled 



