INVESTIGATION OF DISPUTED PEDIGREES. 451 



advertisement Mr. Wickham prepared and published a full list of 

 his stock, with their pedigrees, from the first of his breeding oper- 

 ations, and when he reached the Wildair mare he stopped, just as 

 I have stopped at that point. Here we have the two authorities 

 Mr. John Wickham, distinguished for his eminent character as 

 a man and a jurist; or a nameless stallion advertisement without 

 any shadow of truth or responsibility. 



Timoleon, the sire of Boston, was one of the most distinguished 

 sons of the great Sir Archy, his dam was by imported Saltram, and 

 his grandam by Wildair, but beyond that the pedigree is a hopeless 

 muddle, embracing some features that are absolutely impossible. 



TOM BOWLING AND AARON PENNINGTON. The first of these 

 horses was by Lexington, the second was by Tipperary, son of 

 Ringgold, and they were both out of Lucy Fowler, by imported 

 Albion, grandam by imported Leviathan, great-grandam by Top 

 Gallant, great-great-grandam Eli Odom's saddle mare, which 

 means, in that country, she was a pacer. Tom Bowling was 

 probably the best race horse of his year, and Pennington may be 

 classed as mediocre, but as the latter is credited with some pacers 

 or trotters that have come within the 2:30 list, his pedigree be- 

 comes of interest on this account. I will, therefore, give the 

 facts in some detail, which go to show the truth about what the 

 pedigree contains and what it does not contain. 



In 1809 the late William R. Elliston, of Nashville, Tennessee, 

 furnished me the following facts, which he obtained personally 

 from Mr. Eli Odom. It was very fortunate that Mr. Elliston ob- 

 tained these facts when he did, for Mr. Odom was advanced in years 

 and died not long afterward. He was a brother-in-law of the 

 once very famous breeder and race horse man, Colonel Elliott, of 

 Tennessee, and in early life had charge of his establishment and 

 knew more about Colonel Elliott's stock than he did himself. 

 He lived to old age, highly respected by all who knew him, and 

 was a. rn;m of truth. He kept for his own use a pacing saddle 

 mare who^c blood he knew nothing about, and he bred her to Top 

 Gallant, sou of Gallatin, and the produce was a filly. This filly 

 he bred to imported Leviathan, and in due time there came an- 

 other filly which he bred to imported Albion, and the next filly 

 was Lucy Fowler. This filly passed through the hands of a Mr. 

 Fowler and perhaps one or two others, and at last became the 

 property of Price McGrath, of Lexington, Kentucky, and was the 

 dam of Tom Bowling, Aaron Pennington and others. Starting 



