1 88 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



establishment we found Aberdeen chained in his 

 stall, and the services of three men were required 

 to lead him out. Although the horse acted like 

 a savage, General Withers paid the price and 

 took him away. Rynders was never the same 

 man after this. He grieved much over the loss 

 of his horse. In October of the same year I was 

 at Fairlawn and asked for Aberdeen. General 

 Withers pointed to a three-acre paddock, and 

 there was a stallion quietly grazing. An old 

 negro groom was sent after him, and he put a 

 bridle on the horse and led him to his roomy box 

 stall as quietly as he would a lamb. The open- 

 air treatment, combined with gentleness, had 

 driven savage thoughts from the brain of Aber- 

 deen, and he was as docile as any stallion at Fair- 

 lawn, until the death of General Withers in 1889. 

 Then he passed to Colonel James E. Clay of 

 Paris, Kentucky, and remained his property until 

 he died, in October, 1892. Kentucky Union, 

 2.07^, is the fastest of the 49 trotters from the 

 loins of Aberdeen. Among his t,^ producing 

 sons is Sir Walter, 2.24I, sire of Sir Walter Jr., 

 2.18J, sire of Alcidalia, 2.io|-, and Glory, 2.11^. 

 Wiggins, sire of Katharine A., 2.14, and other 

 fast ones, is another producing son. Onward 



