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lie driving the Lady on those occasions. I mention this to sliow that previous 

 to the mishap, due to an accident, she was entirely kind to all harness. Late in 

 that same falH had her under treatment for distemper, and after she recovered 

 and gained her natural strength and spirits, Dunlap borrowed a road sulky 

 I'rom me, and to it th'ove her for exercise the first time after recovering. I 

 cautioned him regarding the risk he was taking in driving her on so cold a 

 day, she feeling as playful as she did — but nothing short of driving her would 

 satisfy liim. Whilst being driven, under the harness she wore a heavy 

 blanket, which came down below her knees and hocks, as was then fashiona- 

 ble. He drove her out on the Harrodsburg pike one and one-half miles, and 

 in turning to come back a gale of wind struck the long blanket, and, as 

 already intimated, as she was in a playful mood, besides feeling cold, she 

 made a lunge and kick, and the result was slie hung her left hind leg over the 

 cross-bar and got thrown ; and as there was no one to assist, there was con- 

 siderable rolling and tumbling about on the pike before she could be extri- 

 cated from the sulky. And thus in the imprudent and careless way described 

 she was frightened, and it took me a good while to get her over it; but it 

 should be remembered that she never ran nor got loose from a vehicle. In 

 the winter coming three years old, I bouglit one-half interest in her, and 

 afterM'ard Mr. Dunlap sold me his remaining interest — this to be paya- 

 ble when I sold her. At three years old she trotted and received forfeits, 

 some particulars respecting which I will give below — and it became evident 

 that she could trot fast. At four years old she lost her speed, and could not 

 beat 3 :17, any way we could trot her. Ajid yet she looked well, fed well, and 

 was the picture of health, doing,, in short, admirably in every particular, 

 except that she could not send herself along the ground to make time. I 

 bred her this season to Cassius ]*,I. Clay Jr., and concluded I would have 

 every reason to expect something good, but she was not in foal. The spring 

 she was five years old her speed came to her again, and she could just about 

 fly, and continued to do well every season until I sold her, which I did when 

 :-lie was seven years old. During the most dangerous time of the war I sent 

 Lady Thorn and Mambrino Pilot to Ohio for safety. Mr. Dunlap and I 

 bought Lady Thorn's dam in i^artnership, and afterward I bought his inter- 

 est. Lady Thorn was a blood bay, 161^ hands high. She lost her eye by 

 accident — an external injury. Her name, while owned by me and until she 

 left Kentucky, was Maid of Ashland. 



I sliall now briefly enumerate Lady Thorn's trotting performances before 

 she left Kentucky. The summer she was three years old, she was matched in 

 three races. She received forfeit from two of these, and trotted the other 

 against Capt. Thomas Steele's .Snow Storm, three in five, which was won 

 by Thorn in three straight heats, it not being necessary for her to display even 

 an exercising gait, and not seclciug to make time, was pulled all the way. In 

 the fall she was trotted in the Lexington Stake. Kentucky Chief, the Stan- 

 hope mare, Ericsson, and Lady Thorn started. Ericsson and the Stanhope 

 mare were distanced in the first heat. Lady Thorn, under the disadvantages 

 of extra weight, a heavy road sulky, kicking and breaking harness, was sec- 

 ond. She lapped on Kentucky Chief 's wheel, and but for a mishap in the 



