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few Canadian bred trotters began to appear on the 

 American tracks. One of them was Fides. Their sire 

 was given as General Stanton. On looking him up it 

 was found that he was Crooks colt by Hambletonian. 



How General Stanton got from Long Island to 

 Thorald, Ont., which is only a few miles over the 

 Canadian border, no one ever knew, or if they did 

 they said nothing about it. In his new home the 

 blind horse was in charge of John Batten and re- 

 mained there until he died in 1889. 



Prior in his History of the English Racing Calen- 

 dar and Stud Book tells of a hidden horse that passed 

 into the register as the CofRn Mare. She was owned 

 by Oliver Cromwell, the Protector who ruled Eng- 

 land after Charles I. was beheaded. Place, his stud- 

 master, stole the mare and hid her in a cellar in 

 Fenchurch Street until he could smuggle her out of 

 London. It was on account of this that she was given 

 the singular name. 



BILLY BAREFOOT 



In 1857 John Curtin disposed of his business in 

 Angelica, N. Y. and turned his face towards the 

 setting sun. With a drove of horses, and their equip- 

 ment, he aimed at Chicago and hit Decorah. He went 

 there to sell but remained to buy and grow up with 

 the country. The star of Iowa had been shining for 

 eleven years in the group on Old Glory when he 

 crossed the Mississippi River and while the red 

 skinned chiefs no longer smoked their pipes on the 

 clay hills near Council Bluffs, the ink on the Indian 



