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especially as a charger. Colonel Lovelace, an English 

 officer, a veteran of the Crimea, who rocle Joe Renock 

 on one occasion, declared him to be the most perfect 

 saddle horse that he had ever seen. But it is for his 

 roadster qualities chiefly that I cite him here. Mr. 

 John Harkness, an old horseman, and, as I am in- 

 formed on good authority, a truthful man gives the 

 following account. 1 



" On one occasion I drove this stallion ninety miles 

 in one day, under adverse circumstances, which I will 

 relate. I started with him on a journey of a hundred 

 and fifty miles. It was on the first day of August, 

 1869. Joe Renock carried about one hundred pounds 

 of surplus flesh, and was hitched to a phaeton top 

 buggy, holding my wife and myself. I calculated to 

 make the journey in three days. I left home at six 

 o'clock in the morning and drove to Drummondville, 

 a distance of about fifty miles. I landed in Drum- 

 mondville at noon of the same day. ■ I am wrong in 

 saying that I drove him. I should say he pulled me 

 every inch of the way. He would not pull to fight 

 his driver, but he would go right up on the bit, and 

 keep his driver busy all the time. 



" I put him up, intending to stop for the night at 

 Drummondville. After he cooled off, I took him out 

 and groomed him. After I got through with my job, 

 I led him out by the halter, and he played around me 

 like a squirrel. My wife stood on the veranda and 

 remarked, ' He feels well after his drive.' I told her 

 to get ready, and we would drive to a place called Mos- 

 cow, about twenty-five miles farther, as I did not like 

 to stav at Drummondville. 



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1 In the American Horse Breeder of April 22, 1892. 



