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Being desirous to get otlier evidence than that furnished by the direct 

 owners of the mare, I called on their neighbors whom I thought most likely 

 to remember her, to wit : Mr. Nelson Haight, a brother of Daniel B. ; Mr. 

 Stephen Haight, and his son-in-law Mr. Merritt, whose farm adjoins Mr. 

 Wilber's; Mr. William Mahurd, who had the mare the season she had her 

 third colt, and Mr. David S. Tallman, who formerly owned the Dunkin ]Mam- 

 brino, and is now the owner of the Hambletonian stallion Manhattan. Mr. 

 Nelson Haight spoke in the most unqualitied terms of the mare. He said 

 nothing was known of her pedigree ; she was about 15^^ hands high, dark brown 

 in color, heavy moulded, long, deep body on short legs. She had as good a 

 head, ear, neck and shoulder as he ever saw on a horse, and as good a set 

 of limbs. If there could have been any fault found with her, she was a little 

 narrow over the loin, though her hips were good width, and her quarters 

 heavy. He had worked her on the fsirm, and plowed with her many a day. 

 She was an uncommonly good worker, a fast walker and a great roadster. 

 After his brother parted with her, he saw her on one occasion being driven 

 down the road with three persons in a common square box wagon, at a three- 

 minute gait. Mr. Stephen Haight, Mr. Merritt and Mr. Mahurd corroborated 

 what Mr. Eldridge and Mr. Wilber said. Mr. Tallman recollected the mare 

 perfectly, as his attention was repeatedlycalledtoherby anolduncleof his,Mr. 

 Moses Husted, who was high authority on the horse in his day. He says she 

 was an extra-good mare, a very fast walker. He had often seen her taking Mr. 

 Wilber with a load of apples or potatoes to market, at a good gait, without 

 any apparent eftbrt. 



If she was six years old when Mr. Haight bought her, and he owned her seven 

 years, parting with her after she bred Goliah, who was foaled, as Mr. H. 

 informed me, in 1841, and not 1843, as Wallace has it, she must have been 

 bordering on thirty years of age when she died in 1857. 



Her colts by Mambrino Paymaster were all trotters. Wallace has Goliah 

 by Mambrino Paymaster, in his Register, as a brown horse, and in his Calen- 

 dar as a black. As there was but one trotter so bred, by that name, I take it 

 for granted that he is the one referred to, although he was in color bay. He 

 is credited with having trotted in Philadelphia, .July 1, 1851, beating Zachary 

 Taylor in 2 :33 and 2 :33i>2. Mr. Eldridge sold Mambrino Chief to Mr. Warren 

 Williams, when three years old. When six years old, he became the property 

 of Mr. G. Titus Williams, who sold a half-interest in him to Mr. James M. 

 Cockcroft, of New York City. He never was regularly trained. Mr. Cock- 

 croft was a good horseman, and at that time passed several months each year 

 at Washington Hollow, and drove the horse parts of two seasons. He never 

 was trotted in a public race. Mr. G. T. Williams is my authority for saying 

 lie trotted a full mile on the Washington Hollow track, driven by Mr. Cock- 

 croft, in 3:32, and he timed him on several occasions, his quarters, in 37 

 seconds. 



The third colt by Mambrino Paymaster was a bay, with considerable white 

 on both hind legs. I do not know that he was ever in a public race. He was 

 owned and driven on the roads about New York by Mr. Anson Livingston. 

 He waa fine gaited, and could trot in 2:40. I knew all three of these horses. 



