RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



"Old Daisy, gr. m., foaled In 1852; purchased 

 of O. A. Pegram of New York City in 1861, and 

 previous to that owned by Mr. Moller, sugar refiner. 

 Destroyed in 1879." 



Daisy showed such sterling qualities on the road 

 that Mr. Darling bred her to Strideaway, who was a 

 son of Black Hawk Telegraph (by Vermont Black 

 Hawk), out of the celebrated pacing mare, Poca- 

 hontas, 2.17^ to wagon, and the result was Young 

 Daisy, dam of three in 2.20 — Prince Lavalard, 2.1 1 J; 

 Greylight, 2.i6i, and Duke of Wellington, 2.20. 

 Mr. Darling owned, for a while, Kentucky Prince, 

 who combined the blood of Mambrino Chief and 

 Justin Morgan, and he bred Young Daisy to him 

 and got Marguerite, dam of Marguerite A., 2.12J; 

 Axtellion, 2.15 J; Axworthy, 2.15 1; King Darling- 

 ton, 2.16; Mary A., 2.27^, and Col. Axtell, 2.30. 

 I saw Axworthy trot to his three-year-old record of 

 2.15^, and, when I returned from Kentucky to New 

 York and described the victory to Mr. Darling, the 

 glow on his face was like unto that which spreads 

 when the rising sun kisses the sea. Kentucky Prince 

 was a brood-mare sire, as well as a sire of a high 

 rate of speed, and we must not overlook him when 

 we talk of the merit of Marguerite, whose sire was 

 Axtell, uniting the blood of George Wilkes and 

 Mambrino Patchen. I was in the timing stand 

 when Axtell trotted to his three-year-old record, and 

 was not surprised to learn soon after that he had 

 been sold for $105,000. In 1882 Chas. J. Foster 



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