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ing it, he assumes it is true and represents it accordingly. But 

 underlying all this, the representation cannot be disproved, and 

 (3) it may add to the market value of the horse. 



This weakness of human nature, so pervasive of all' interests 

 connected with the horse, did not originate in this country, but 

 came from the old world. We inherit it from our ancestors. 

 "The fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth 

 are set on edge." Take the case of the little bald-faced, pacing- 

 bred horse known in the old records as "The Bald Galloway" and 

 while it is Dot probable he had a single drop of Saracenic blood 

 in his veins, he is fitted out with a grand pedigree, full of that 

 blood. Although I have already referred to this horse as an ex- 

 emplification of the dishonesty of the early records of English 

 pedigrees, I will again look at it in a more specific manner. He 

 was nothing more nor less than a little native horse, belonging 

 to a tribe of noted pacers in the southwestern part of Scotland 

 and in the northern part of England. These Galloways were 

 probably the very last remnant of pacers to be found in Great 

 Britain. He is represented in the books to have been by a horse 

 called "St. Victor's Barb;" dam by Whynot; grandam a Royal 

 Mare. The Bald Galloway was foaled not later than 1708, and it 

 was probably a few years earlier. His reputed sire, "St. Victor's. 

 Barb," is not to be found anywhere and was probably fictitious. 

 His dam was represented to be by Whynot, and this horse was not 

 foaled till 1744 thirty-six years after his grandson was foaled. 

 The grandam is given as a "Royal Mare," which in that day 

 was a convenient way of rounding out a pedigree, just as we now 

 attempt to round them out when we know nothing of the blood 

 by saying "dam thoroughbred." "The Bald Galloway" was one 

 of the most successful stallions of his day, and yet he was noth- 

 ing in the world but a good representative of the old pacing Gal- 

 loways of that portion of Scotland then called Galloway. He 

 was low in stature, but he was esteemed as one of the greatest 

 and most valuable racing sires of his generation: One of his 

 sons the Carlisle Gelding was still a race horse when he was 

 eighteen years old. 



"The Darley Arabian" was contemporaneous with the Bald 

 Galloway, and they commenced service in England about the 

 same year. It is said he was brought from Aleppo, in Syria, or, 

 perhaps I had better say Asia Minor. Aleppo is but a short dis- 

 tance from the borders of ancient Cappadocia and Cilicia, coun- 



