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closed in and the ground became frozen, the Auburn 

 horse showed a flight of speed that set Mr. Woodruff's 

 household and stable in commotion. On alighting 

 from the sulky, he declared that he had just been car- 

 ried faster than he ever rode before in his life, and 

 he made the same remark to Mr. Bonner later in the 

 day, when that gentleman paid the stable a visit. 

 " But," said Mr. Bonner, " you rode at the rate of 

 two minutes to the mile behind Peerless for a quar- 

 ter. Do you mean to say that you rode faster behind 

 the Auburn horse than behind the gray mare ? ' 

 Woodruff answered, " Faster than behind the gray 

 mare, — faster than I ever rode before behind any 

 horse." This was probably true, for he was a man 

 not given to overstatement ; but early in the follow- 

 ing spring, before the season opened, Hiram Woodruff 

 died, and the Auburn horse did not long survive him. 

 So much for the chief strains of trotting blood 

 derived from Messenger. Next in importance among 

 founders of the trotter comes the Barb or Arab, 

 Grand Bashaw, who was imported from Tripoli in 

 1820. He is described as a very beautiful little black 

 horse, about 14.1 high, with a small star in his fore- 

 head. He died in Pennsylvania in the year 1845. 

 Among his sons was Young Bashaw, a larger and 

 much coarser animal, and gray in color like his dam, 

 who was Pearl, by Bond's First Consul ; his grandam 

 was a Messenger mare. Young Bashaw sired Andrew 

 Jackson, 1 the fastest trotting stallion of his day, a 

 black horse, strong, compact, and short-legged. When 

 Andrew Jackson was foaled, his dam was the prop- 

 erty of one Daniel Jeffreys, a brickmaker, and the 



1 His dam was a pacer, and nothing more is known of her. 



