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speed-getter for a long time, and was neglected by 

 the trotting horsemen for the then popular Clays, 

 until the phenomenal performances of some of his 

 get forced him to the front. 



''One day in the same year (1846) that he got the 

 sorrel filly which we are trying to show to have been 

 Shanghai Mary, after having served seven mares 

 since sun up, Iron's Cadmus covered the eighth for 

 old man Dines, who had come over from Butler 

 county, hoping to get a colt that would be a runner. 

 From that cover came, Pocahontas, the fleetest- 

 footed pacer, all things considered, that has ever 

 appeared in this, and, so far as is known, any 

 country. Her well authenticated 2:08 to wagon over 

 the Queen City course, at Cincinnati, away back in 

 1854, without boots, weights, ball-bearings, pneuma- 

 tic tires, or even scientific conditioning or driving, 

 was a performance that no horse, mare or gelding 

 has eclipsed to this day. She had to retire from 

 the track because there was no longer anything to 

 go against." 



The above is all that is known of Shanghai Mary 

 and the white faced filly that Thaddeus Coffeen rode 

 away from his home at Red Lion in 1850. Were 

 there two three-year-olds of that description in Ohio 

 that summer or was there only the one which ap- 

 pears in the pedigree of Electioneer ? 



