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and I know to my certain knowledge that Captain Russell never owned or had 

 in bis possession the mare Maria Russell, or any of her produce ; and I further 

 know to my certain knowledge that said mare, Maria Russell, had two good 

 eyes from the time of her foaling until the day of her death. If my father 

 hred a mare to Boston in 1848, I incline to the opinion that it was a bay mare 

 called Limber, for the reason that she, Limber, was very uncertain, having 

 missed several seasons. There is one point, however, that I feel very certain 

 upon, and that is that neither my father nor Captain Russell, during their rac- 

 ing or breeding career, ever owned a Boston filly. As Boston was the most 

 famous horse of his time, it is not at all possible that there could have been a 

 Boston colt or filly on my father's farm and I not knowing of the fact. I was 

 born in the old homestead the 15th of November, 1820, and have resided either 

 there or adjoining all my life; therefore I had constant opportunity to know 

 all about my father's stock of horses. L. HOLTON. 



" I hereby attest that the above is my father's signature. J. A. HOLTON, son 

 of Llewellyn Holton." 



Fourth. With the foregoing clear and decisive statement before 

 us, it is not necessary to determine whether the partnership be- 

 tween Holton and Russell embraced the joint ownership of the 

 racing stock or whether the running colts of the two farms were 

 brought together from year to year, and as a matter of economy 

 and profit, trained and raced as one stable. This latter view of 

 the question seems to be made plain. In his interview with Mr. 

 Holton my commissioner reported as follows: "The horses were 

 always trained by Captain Holton at his private track at the 

 Forks of Elkhorn. That he, Llewellyn Holton, always went 

 after the colts that were on the Russell farm when the training 

 season commenced, and at the close of the racing campaign of 

 the year he always took those back that came from the Russell 

 stock, while those from Captain Holton's stock were kept on the 

 home farm. When the partnership between Captain Holton 

 and Captain Russell was dissolved, Mr. Llewellyn Holton is posi- 

 tively certain that Captain Russell retained his own stock and 

 Captain Holton his own, the latter consisting of the produce of 

 the Stockholder mare, among them Maria Russell, and all her 

 produce. And he is still more positively certain that neither the 

 mare, Maria Russell, nor any of her produce was ever in the 

 hands of Captain Russell." At the close of each season the 

 owners, respectively, took their own stock home till the next 

 spring, and after a series of years each owner took his own stock 

 home, and that was the end of the arrangement. 



Fifth. In the summer of 1883 I met Mr. John W. Russell, 

 son of Captain Russell, at the house of Mr. R. S. Veech, near 



