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Buffalo in 1868, and obtained his record of 2.23^. 

 S. T. Harris was a witness of the race, and he 

 wrote: " He started for the first $10,000 trotting 

 premium ever offered in America. It was a 

 grand occasion. From his pedigree I was aware 

 that he was an inbred Morgan. This fact 

 heightened my amazement at his highly finished 

 form, for he looked like Marion by Lexington 

 out of Miriam by Glencoe. In the sunshine he 

 was a golden chestnut. He stood full 16 hands 

 high, and his body ranged grandly in proportion. 

 His flashing eye was as proudly defiant as Milton 

 pictures Lucifer's. He must have been severely 

 drawn for this eventful contest, for his chest im- 

 pressed me as unusually deep and capacious, his 

 body and limbs exceedingly lengthy, his flanks 

 light and tucked as a greyhound's, and his im- 

 patient eagerness as great as Lancaster's when 

 he made the fastest two-mile run then on record." 

 Among the horses beaten in the Buffalo race 

 were George Palmer and American Girl. Colo- 

 nel H. S. Russell paid $25,000 for Fearnaught 

 and placed him in the stud at Home Farm, 

 Milton, Massachusetts, where he sired Galatea, 

 2.24f; Argonaut, 2.23^ ; and Fearnaught Jr., 2.26. 

 Five of his sons and four of his daughters are 



