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oldest stallion. 



"Captain Lewis told me repeatedly that the mare 

 had no name when he sold her, but, was afterwards 

 named Dolly Spanker. I am satisfied that the breed- 

 ing of the dam of George Wilkes was established 

 before she died, if not, why did Captain Lewis go 

 to the Felter Farm to identify her? 



''I knew John P. Ray intimately for thirty years 

 before he died. He looked up that pedigree at the 

 time Wallace was investigating it, and he told me 

 that the dam of George Wilkes was by Henry Clay. 

 After the second story was started about who owned 

 Henry Clay when Philips bred the Highlander mare, 

 Ray heard of it. He started the last investigation on 

 the memory of a man, forty years after he had bred 

 a mare, about who owned the stallion at the time. 



"Captain Lewis was a bachelor. Stewart L. Purdy 

 was his nephew. He was with his uncle more or less 

 all his life, and knew all about the horse interests 

 of Captain Lewis. When eight-years-old he saw 

 Henry Clay and knew the breeding of the mare. The 

 letter from him does away with any of the state- 

 ments as to the veracity of his uncle about the 

 pedigree. 



"The point that Stewart Purdy makes about the 

 price of the service fee is a strong factor in the 

 case. I have another brother-in-law living in Bristol. 

 He was bom there and always lived there on a farm 

 within two miles of Joshua Philips. He is not a 

 horseman, but he heard of these facts, and was a 

 friend of Leonard Gooding, as we all married sis- 



