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soon after, Captain Lewis told me the whole story 

 about the mare, that Harry Felter had asked him 

 to secure the breeding and that he sent John Dey to 

 Bristol to get it. 



'In 1875 I moved to Waterloo and lived there 

 twenty-five years, seven miles from Geneva. I knew 

 every horse that was of racing caliber, that Dey, 

 Cobb and Lewis had during all those years and knew 

 them up to their deaths. 



''Captain Lewis was not a race horse man. He loved 

 horses but did not race them. John Dey was their 

 horseman and Cobb was the inspiration of all the 

 trotting horse deals. 



"The whole trouble in this matter was caused by 

 the bad memory of Clark Philips, thirty years 

 afterwards. He thought Bailey owned Henry Clay 

 when the Highlander mare was bred to him. No 

 proof, nothing but memory. 



"Leonard Gooding married my wife's sister in the 

 spring of 1868. He was born and lived all his life 

 on the Homestead Farm in Bristol Center, N. Y. 

 Gooding bred many colts and knew the history of all 

 the horses in Bristol, N. Y. In the summer and fall 

 of 1868 I visited him. He had at that time two black 

 stallions, one he told me was 21 years old, the other 

 eight or ten years younger. He told me that the 

 older one was bred the first year that Henry Clay 

 stood in Bristol. He also told me at that time, that 

 he knew the dam of George Wilkes as he was well 

 acquainted with all of the Philips' and that the dam 

 of George Wilkes was foaled the same year as his 



