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an evidence of bad breeding, and this prejudice has continued for 

 many years. The saddle was going out of use and wheels were 

 coming in. After Flora Temple electrified the trotting world, 

 writers had a great deal to say of her origin and family, but no 

 one ever intimated that her grandsire was a pacer. From sources 

 that I have no reason to doubt, I have been informed he was not 

 only a pacer, but a fast pacer. This habit of action was not 

 popular with breeders, and Mr. Ferguson kept it concealed as 

 much as possible. When the pacer, Oneida Chief, from his own 

 loins, was beating Lady Suffolk, three miles in 7:44, to saddle, 

 and many of the other cracks of that day, his sire was dead and 

 nothing was then to be made by proclaiming from the housetops 

 that Oneida Chief was by old Kentucky Hunter. 



Very little is known of Watkins' Highlander, the sire of this 

 horse. He was brought to Whitestown, New York, 1821, by 

 Julius Watkins, from Connecticut. Some of the older men who 

 knew the horse insist that Mr. Watkins represented him to be 

 by a son of imported Messenger, and out of Nancy Dawson by 

 imported Brown Highlander. This is possible, indeed probable, 

 but it is not established. 



BOGUS HUNTER was one of the younger sons of Kentucky 

 Hunter. He was a chestnut horse of good size and came out of 

 a mare by Bogus. But little is known of this horse, and that 

 little is rendered still more uncertain by the unreliable character 

 of his owners, the Loomis brothers, of Sangerfield, New York. 

 It is certain, however, that a horse owned by the Loomises and 

 called by this name was the sire of the famous world beater, 

 Flora Temple. This fact rests upon the testimony of Mr. 

 Samuel Welch, a reputable and trustworthy man who owned the 

 dam of Flora and had her coupled with this horse, under his own 

 eye. 



EDWIN FORREST, the most prominent representative of this 

 family, was a large and rather loosely made bay horse, foaled 

 1851, got by Young Bay Kentucky Hunter, son of Bay Kentucky 

 Hunter, that was by the original Kentucky Hunter. His dam, 

 Doll, bred by Mrs. Crane, of Whitestown, Oneida County, New 

 York, was by Watkins' Highlander; grandam a chestnut mare 

 owned in the Crane family, by Black Eiver Messenger, son of 

 Ogden's Messenger. The identification of this grandson of im- 

 ported Messenger was secured after the appearance of the fifth 

 volume of the "Register." This same mare, Doll, the next year 



