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to the breeding of Katy Darling. He said she was 

 probably by a son of Andrew Jackson. In 1894 a 

 correspondent of the ''Horse Review" located Lewis 

 J. Sutton at East Orange, N. J., and secured the 

 following sketch of Katy Darling. At that time the 

 old horseman was badly crippled with rheumatism 

 but all of his aches were forgotten as he told of the 

 days when Dame Fortune linked his name with a 

 horse that will be remembered as long as records 

 are kept. 



''When I was a young fellow, not quite 20, I began 

 horse dealing. Would take two or three now and 

 then from Warwick down to York, (rural for New 

 York) put up at some road house andj stay until I 

 had sold them. Almost from the start I made my 

 headquarters at the Four-Mile Road House, on Third 

 Avenue, kept by an oldtime horseman, Carl Young. 

 Young knew everybody worth knowing in the horse 

 line. His house — Third Avenue, then a dirt road, 

 was the fashionable speedway for the city road 

 drivers — was frequented by some of the best horse- 

 men in New York and never a match on the road 

 anywhere about or a race on Union or Fashion 

 tracks but Young was there. 



"He took a fancy to me," said Sutton, "gave me 

 many a good hint, lots of good advice, and helped 

 me sell many a horse. He always called me 'boy.' I 

 can recollect as if it were yesterday, him saying to 

 me some time in the spring of 1851, month o' May I 

 think ; 'Boy, I can put you on to a good thing. There's 

 a mare lying sick in a stable about eleven miles up 



