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in that county, hence there could be no doubt that she was a 

 "thoroughbred" daughter of that horse. With this review of 

 the misfortunes of Mr. Alexander in placing the arrangement 

 and, I might say, care of his pedigrees, in dishonest hands, we 

 will pass whatever may remain of his early stallions, and take a 

 glance at some of the pedigrees of his brood mares. 



Black Rose proved to be one of the best brood mares ever 

 owned at Woodburn. I am told she was a pacer, and certainly 

 all that is known of her blood was pacing blood. She was sought 

 after and procured by Mr. Alexander because she had produced 

 several trotters, and it can be read all through his purchases for 

 the trotting stud, that he had undoubting confidence in the 

 theory that trotters must come from trotters. When this mare 

 first appeared in the Woodburn catalogue no dam was given to 

 her, but meantime the "pedigree maker" had come around, and 

 the next year she was fitted out with the following, in fine style. 



" Black Rose,'bl. m., foaled about 1847 ; got by Tom Teemer ; dam by Can- 

 non's Whip ; g. d. by Robin Gray, son of imp. Royalist." 



The pedigree stood in this form a number of years, and proba- 

 bly would still be so standing had it not been that in trying to 

 learn something more about the sire, Tom Teemer, I received 

 some intimations that made me doubtful about the maternal side. 

 On a certain occasion I asked Mr. R. S. Veech, of Kentucky, what 

 he knew about it, and he replied that he had made a trip to 

 Clark County for no other purpose than to trace and investigate 

 the pedigree of Black Rose, and he was not able to get a single 

 syllable of information about her dam, any more than if she never 

 had a dam. Some time afterward I wrote to Mr. Brodhead, 

 manager at Woodburn, inquiring where the pedigree of Black 

 Rose as given and perpetuated in the Woodburn catalogues came 

 from and on what basis it rested. He replied promptly and 

 briefly that Mr. Veech had made a trip to Clark County in search 

 of this pedigree and the result of that search was what appeared 

 in the catalogue. These are the facts, substantially, as given 

 me by these two gentlemen, and this is the first time I have ever 

 given them to the public. I have known Mr. Veech intimately 

 and trustingly for twenty-eight years and I know him to be em- 

 inently truthful. I have not known Mr. Brodhead so long, and if 

 he had not published the fraudulent extension of this pedigree 

 in his catalogues every year for more than ten years, before Mr. 



