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tised as "remarkable for getting exceeding fine 

 colts and good goers." 



As to Driver, it was claimed, in the adver- 

 tisements of some of his descendants, that he 

 trotted seventeen miles in one hour. He was 

 foaled about 1765, and his fame was perpetu- 

 ated chiefly through Jenkinson's Fireaway, 

 foaled 1780, the original of the well-known 

 Fireaway family of Hackneys, and the sire of 

 the famous Wroot's Pretender. Jenkinson's 

 Fireaway must have been a great trotter, as it 

 is said that "he trotted two miles on the Ox- 

 ford Road in five minutes; and, chiefly through 

 his son, Wroot's Pretender, exercised a potent 

 influence upon the horse stock of Norfolk, 

 Lincoln, Yorkshire, and the North of England 

 generally. This horse, Wroot's Pretender, is 

 invested with especial interest to American 

 horsemen from the fact that he was the grand- 

 sire of imported Bellfounder, that got the 

 Charles Kent mare, the dam of that great Amer- 

 ican progenitor of trotters Rysdyk's Hamble- 

 tonian. It is alleged of Wroot's Pretender, 

 that "when five years old he trotted sixteen 

 miles in one hour, carrying sixteen stone;" 

 and that he was exceedingly popular and ex- 

 tensively patronized in the stud is shown in 

 the alleged fact that his serving fees for mares 

 for the years 1803-4-5 amounted to 761 15s. 

 6d. (about $3,695), "exclusive of the groom's 



