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4. Bay horse. 3 years old, by Mainbrino Chief, dain by Gray Eagle. 



5. Black colt. 2 years old, by Kt. of St. George, dain (daui of Capitola) by 

 Margrave. 



6. Bay mare, 9 years old, by imp. Glencoe, dam by Rudolph, g.d. Belle An- 

 derson. 



7. Bay filly, 2 years old, by Revenue, dam Sally Morgan by Emancipation. 



8. Chestnut filly, 4 yearsold, by Vandal, dam by Gray Eagle, g.d. Churchill. 



9. Chestnut mare by Wagner (dam of No. 11). 



10. Bay mare by Sovereign. 



11. Black colt, 2 years old, by Kt. of St. George, dam No. 9, by Wagner. 



12. Chestnut filly, 3 years old, by Jack Gamble, dam Betty King by Boston. 



13. Bay mare, 6 years old, by imp. Sovereign, dam by Mirabeau, g.d. Ara- 

 bella. 



14. Captain Beard, b.s., 9 years old, by imp. Yorkshire, dam by imp. Glen- 

 coe, g.d. by imp. Leviathan, g.g.d. by Stockholder. 



15. Gray mare by Gray Eagle, dam Mary Morris, by Medoc. 

 18. Hope, ch. in. by Glencoe, dam Susette by Aratus. 



17. Bay mare by Sovereign, dam by Gray Eagle. 



18. Chestnut filly, 2 years old, by Bob Johnson, dam by Brawner's Eclipse. 



19. Chestnut filly, 3 years old, by Kt. of St. George, dam by Gray Eagle. 



20. Bay colt, one year old, by Lexington, dam by Gray Eagle, g.d. Mary 

 Morris. 



21. Ch. c.. 2 years old by Ringgold, darn Hope by Glencoe. 

 22 and 23. Pair 3:00 six-year-old trotting mares. 



24. Black mare, trotter, 8 years old; time, 2:50. 



25. Bay gelding, trotter, 5 years old; time, near 3:00. 



26. Bay mare for show, but not to go. 



From this inventory we must conclude that Mr. Welch was a 

 careful and methodical man. He knew he had twenty-six animals 

 ready to start, and after he had written off the descriptions and 

 pedigrees of these - twenty-six animals he verified his work by 

 numbering them from one to twenty-six inclusive, and then he 

 knew he had not omitted any one. This inventory is the basis of 

 the whole truth in this matter, and is the only evidence in the 

 wide world of what animals Mr. Welch started with to California. 

 As this is the vital and only starting point to reach the truth, I 

 trust my readers will examine it again carefully and see whether 

 it includes any filly or mare by Lexington, of any age. When 

 you ask any of these "more-running-blood-in-the-trotter" peo- 

 ple who took Waxy, the phantom daughter of Lexington, to 

 California, you will get an evasive answer, and when pressed 

 they will at last say, John P. Welch. Now, as to John P. 

 Welch, "he being dead yet speaketh." From his unknown grave 

 he tells these people they are trying to establish what is not true, 



