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named Peter Moller had passed away. Daisy's speed 

 and endurance first attracted attention on the New 

 York roads. Like most of the old time trotters she 

 took a firm hold on the bit but notwithstanding that 

 fault no road was too long or clip too fast for her to 

 give a good acount of herself. 



In time Daisy passed from Peter Moller to 0. E. 

 Pegram. In 1861 he sold her to A. B. Darhng, who 

 was at that time a junior partner in the Fifth Ave- 

 nue Hotel, having gone to New York from Vermont 

 where he grew up on a farm. 



Daisy was A. B. DarHng's first horse. He kept her 

 until she died in 1879. He described her as having 

 wonderful nervous force and lung power and as 

 nearly tireless as a piecQ of horse flesh could be. 



When Mr. Darling established a breeding farm at 

 Ramsey, N. J., he placed Daisy among his brood 

 mares. Her descendants stood the acid test of the 

 turf. 



A short time before he died Mr. Darling when re- 

 ferring to Daisy said, "The descendants of Daisy 

 are the best that I have. No part of my stock pro- 

 duced speed with such uniformity and of so satisfac- 

 tory a type as those tracing to this old road mare. 

 In her day she could brush a 2 :20 gait to wagon. 



*ln 1869 I bred Daisy to a young Morgan stallion 

 by Black Hawk Telegraph named Strideaway. His 

 dam was the old pacing mare Pocahontas that placed 

 the world's record at 2:17V2 when she defeated Hero 

 to wagon over the Uniony Course on Long Island in 

 1855. To this cover Daisy produced a gray filly 



