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you with perfect ease to rider and horse from ten 

 to twelve miles an hour. We doubt if Kentucky, 

 or any other state, ever had the superior of Old 

 Mountain Slasher. His prepotency was remark- 

 able." 



Mr. Douglas describes Love's Pilot as a rich 

 brown of 15.2, by a son of Elliott's Pilot Jr. by 

 Alexander's Pilot, dam Fanny Fern, a premium 

 saddle mare. 



" Fayette Denmark was a strong and hand- 

 some bay of 1 6 hands, going all saddle gaits, and 

 got by Washington Denmark of Kentucky, son 

 of imported Hedgeford, dam by Gray Eagle. He 

 took premiums in Kentucky, and at Nashville, 

 Murfreesboro, Franklin, and Columbia, Tennes- 

 see, and later was returned to Kentucky." 



A handbill, issued in 1882, describes Dillard 

 Denmark as a rich brown of 15.2. " Dillard the 

 Third, the sire of Dillard Denmark, was out of 

 Electra, she by Thompson's or Pointer's Slasher. 

 Electra was quite as fast and fine a saddle mare 

 as Zephyr, her grand-dam on sire's side. Zephyr 

 captured all the blue ribbons wherever shown. 

 Electra's dam, Stockings, was by Highlander, a 

 four-mile race-horse by Glencoe. Stockings was 

 a number one saddle mare, having often coon- 



