310 THE TROTTING-nORSE OF AMERICA. 



Freehold, N. J. The mare that ' dropped him belonged to 

 Mr. Carman of Westchester County. She had been sent 

 to Mr. Sickles to be wintered ; and it was not thought she 

 was in foal, though she had been covered : in fact, Mr. 

 Carman told Mr. Sickles, that, if she was in foal, he might 

 have the produce. That produce was Patchen. He was 

 above sixteen hands high, with great strength and much 

 bone. He was coarse about the head, and heavy in the 

 carcass ; but though he was what you might call a plain 

 horse, his points were uncommonly strong and good, and his 

 action was capital. 



He had good blood in him : for he was got by Cassius M. 

 Clay, who was by old Henry Clay ; and his darn was by a 

 young horse who was own brother to Trustee the trotter, 

 So here was the Bashaw blood through Andrew Jackson, the 

 Messenger blood also through him, the blood of imported 

 Trustee, and the blood of the famous trotting-mare Fanny 

 Pullen, who was herself a high-bred trotting-mare. Some 

 have doubted whether the sire of Patchen's dam was own 

 brother to Trustee the twenty-miler j but, after inquiry, I 

 have reason to believe so. Her sire was a three-year-old colt, 

 by imported Trustee, out of Fanny Pullen. Patchen's dam 

 was probably the only foal he ever got ; for he was soon made 

 a gelding, and was driven for many years by a gentleman in 

 Westchester County. He was himself a fast and stout 

 trotter. 



In 1858, Patchen was matched against Ethan Allen, mile 

 heats, three in five, to lOOlb. wagons. The little horse 

 distanced the big one in 2m. 28s. But, while Flora was upon 

 her exhibitions in the West with Princess, Patchen had 

 performed on Long Island and at Philadelphia with great 

 success and distinction. He had been sold, in whole or in 

 part, to John Buckley, and was trained and driven by 

 Darius Tollman. He had that season beaten such horses 

 as Brown Dick and Lancet ; had trotted two heats in har- 

 ness in one race in 2m. 26|s., and 2m. 26^-s. ; and, in another 



