3IO The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



the great pacers beaten by him in the fierce bat- 

 tles of the turf are Joe Patchen, Star Pointer, 

 Robert J., Anaconda, and Frank Agan. He was 

 sold at auction in 1896, for $19,900, has challenged 

 the admiration of the country, and has frequently 

 been driven on the road, where his manners are 

 perfect, by his owner, Edward H. Harriman. As 

 a sire he transmits both the trotting and the pac- 

 ing gaits. 



Joe Patchen, the iron-hearted and iron-limbed 

 horse, is owned by Hon. John McCarty, whose 

 Parkway Farm at Goshen is not far from Arden 

 Farms, the estate of Mr. Harriman. He is a 

 powerfully built black horse, foaled in 1889, and 

 sired by Patchen Wilkes (son of George Wilkes 

 and Kitty Patchen by Mambrino Patchen); dam 

 Josephine Young by Joe Young, w^ho traces twice 

 through his sire, Joe West, to Justin Morgan. 

 Betty Brown, the dam of Kitty Patchen, was a 

 daughter of Mambrino Patchen (son of Mambrino 

 Chief) out of a daughter of Mambrino Chief. 

 The potent foundation strains of Morgan, Ham- 

 bletonian, and Mambrino Chief are closely inter- 

 woven in Joe Patchen, and yet the result is a 

 great pacer, with pacing conformation. Joe 

 Patchen never knew when he was beaten on the 



