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in with the pacing mare, Mr. Odom bred all that followed until 

 we reach Lucy Fowler, and there we find she had seven parts of 

 running blood and one part of pacing blood. While an animal 

 bred in this way is certainly not ''thoroughbred/ 7 nobody can 

 deny that he is "running-bred/ 7 for there are hundreds of in- 

 stances on record where animals of even shorter pedigrees than 

 Tom Bowling have been noted race horses. But there is an- 

 other fact connected with this family that is very interesting. 

 When the running qualities of Pennington were exhausted, 

 McGrath presented him to a kinsman of his, somewhere in Western 

 Missouri. After awhile I began to hear of an occasional trotter 

 from this horse and I wrote his owner (whose name I cannot now 

 recall), and he replied that "he went all the saddle gaits and was 

 a pacer." Here was a tidbit that I thought well worth looking 

 after, and I wrote the owner again for specific information of the 

 character of his pace and whether it was a clean and pronounced 

 side action, but for some reason or other I never was able to get. 

 a reply to my questions. There can be no mistake about his 

 going the "saddle gaits/ 7 but whether this was the result of 

 training or whether he took to them naturally as inherited from 

 Mr. Odom 7 s old pacing mare, is a point about which I have never 

 been fully satisfied. 



GREY EAGLE (CHENERY 7 s). When Mr. Winthrop W. Chenery, 

 of Boston, bought this horse, about 1866, he got with him the 

 following pedigree. 



" Got by Grey Eagle; dam by imp. Trustee; g.d. by Columbus; g.g.d. by 

 Stockholder; g.g.g.d. by Pacolet. Bred in Kentucky, and passed through 

 many vicissitudes, both as a runner and a trotter, beating his competitors at 

 both gaits; owned for a time in Ohio, now the property of Winthrop W. 

 Chenery & Co., Boston." 



This was a correct type of the pedigrees of that time, lacking 

 date, location, breeder and all other things necessary to trace and 

 determine its value. The horse had certainly trotted in 2:31, 

 and he had trotted two miles to wagon in 5:09, and to this evi- 

 dence of his trotting ability it was claimed that he had run and won 

 many races at all distances. This was such a combination of abil- 

 ities as I never had heard of before, and in attempting to solve the 

 riddle I became deeply interested. The search then instituted 

 has been kept up over since, and I must say that after all these 

 years I know absolutely nothing about the breeding of this 

 horse. His first known owner was a petty gambler and general. 



