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iron ; could work all day and run foxes at night ; 

 eat less and stand more on empty bellies than 

 any horses I ever saw. They were the best 

 saddle horses in the Confederate cavalry, and 

 looked like race-horses built on the Jack Malone 

 and Bonnie Scotland type. They were the most 

 useful stock in our state. Many of the fastest 

 pacers in Tennessee, such as Prince Pulaski and 

 Mattie Hunter, are proofs of the value of the 

 Traveller blood. 



" There is a Clipper stock that once was popu- 

 lar, but unsound eyes obscured them. They 

 were from the Tom Hal family of Kentucky. 



" The two premium saddle horses and sires 

 of middle Tennessee were Old Mountain Slasher 

 and Thompson's Traveller. Pedigrees as given 

 in handbills are doubtful, but Mountain Slasher 

 is good enough to trace to for speed and saddle 

 horses. He was a beautiful iron-gray, dappled 

 when young, and had a white or silver tail and 

 mane. Was near a three-minute horse on the 

 road, and was in his day Tennessee's ideal saddle 

 horse, always creating a sensation in the fair ring. 

 He was a model fit for a king to ride. His 

 running walk and fox trot have never been 

 equalled since his day. It would have carried 



