406 RACEALONG 



When Mr. Shipman returned to Stony Ford from 

 western New York he brought along a picture of 

 Shanghai Mary. It was given to him by one of her 

 former owners. This colored print was placed in a 

 frame and hung in the smoking room. Aside from 

 the odd markings it did not attract very much atten- 

 tion until it was examined one day by H. M. Hanna 

 and William B. Fasig. Both of them were familiar 

 with the horses of southern Ohio and both of them 

 without a moment's hesitation declared that the 

 mare belonged to the Cadmus family. 



John H. Wallace had also called attention to the 

 resemblance between Shanghai Mary and Pocahon- 

 tas and said that if the breeding of Shanghai Mary 

 was ever established it would be found that they 

 came from the same tribe of horses and probably 

 from the same horse, Iron's Cadmus. This sugges- 

 tion never took root until the summer of 1894 when 

 Herschel I. Fisher, the editor of the "Western News'* 

 of Lebanon, Ohio, saw a reference to it. In an article 

 which he later on sent to the Horse Review, Mr. 

 Fisher said: — 



*'I called the attention of the veteran horsemen 

 of Warren County, to the fact that Electioneer was 

 descended from a sorrel mare, with white feet and 

 face, that was three-years-old in 1850 and that she 

 might have been a Cadmus. They were asked to 

 communicate with me in case they had any knowl- 

 edge of such a filly having b^en disposed of at or 

 near Canton, 0., in 1850 by a young man or a boy. 



"Not a person was found who had any knowledge 



