442 THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



'2. Ill speaking of the losses, by death on the route, of some of 

 the more noted animals, Mr. Anderson enumerates the noted 

 stallion Captain Beard, and a very fine yearling colt by Lexing- 

 ton, called Frank. Here perished the only foal by Lexington in 

 the band, and we may as well bury Mr. Gould's and Mr. Brod- 

 head's "typographical error" with him, for the colt kicked it to 

 death before he died. 



3. When the band reached California there were several addi- 

 tions smuggled into it as being part of the originals from Ken- 

 tucky, and among these additions was the light chestnut filly that 

 has been since known as Waxy, given as a foal of 1862, and got 

 by Lexington, dam unknown. 



4. As Mr. Brodhead had proved conclusively, from the records 

 at Woodburn, that Mr. Swigert's Grey Eagle mare was barren in 

 1862, the "typographical error" parties found themselves placed 

 "between the devil and the deep sea." 



This outside filly that had been smuggled into the band of 

 Kentuckians was advertised along with them, as a foal of 1862, 

 in the fall of 1864; she was sold as a foal of 1862; she was entered 

 in a sweepstake for three-year-olds as a foal of 1862; she was ex- 

 hibited at a horse show as a foal of 1862; she started to run the 

 only race she ever attempted as a foal of 1862, and proving her- 

 self utterly worthless as a race mare, she was given away on the 

 spot as a foal of 1862. 



As the only representative of Lexington in the band was "the 

 yearling bay colt Frank," as shown by Mr. Anderson, the partner 

 of Mr. Welch; and as the records at Woodburn had clearly and 

 distinctly shown that Swigert's Grey Eagle mare was barren in 

 1862, the bottom was out of the conspiracy and it was abandoned. 

 There was a little fussing about the possibility that there might 

 have been a mistake and that Waxy might have been a foal of 

 1863 after all, but it amounted to nothing more than the en- 

 feebled squeak of an asthmatic mouse and then all was quiet. 



Before passing to the other branch of the investigation, this 

 seems to be the proper place to speak of the incidents of the sale' 

 and its sequences at the Fair Grounds at San Jose, January 3, 

 1865. There were some twelve or fifteen head, that had been 

 previously advertised, offered at public sale, and a number of 

 those were sold, all indeed in which this inquiry has any interest. 

 When the stock arrived at San Jose, there was a good deal of 

 confusion, and it is just possible that some of them were not. 



