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for turf purposes. Our purchase of Louis Napoleon 

 and Fanny Mapes has proven profitable, and the 

 nick a happy one for us. We presume no greater 

 ridicule was ever heaped on anyone than was on us 

 when we returned from Orange County, N. Y., in 

 August, 1873, with Fanny Mapes, and stated that 

 we paid $600 for her." 



Fanny Mapes, bay mare, 15.1 hands, " got by 

 Alexander's Abdallah, known as Edsall's Hambleto- 

 nian," appeared in the first catalogue (1870) of 

 Stony Ford, and Mr. Backman more than once said 

 to me that he parted with her because she was not 

 up to his standard of merit. In other hands Fanny 

 Mapes was quite a fountain of speed. Seven of her 

 sons are sires of speed. Louis Napoleon by Volun- 

 teer, out of Hattie Wood by Sayres' Harry Clay, she 

 out of Grandmother by Terror, was also a member 

 of Stony Ford stud, but Mr. Backman did not hesi- 

 tate to say that he lacked common sense and sold 

 him cheaply on this account. Bred to Fanny Mapes, 

 he produced Jerome Eddy, a sire of fast and resolute 

 trotters and pacers. Mr. Backman sometimes al- 

 lowed prejudice to warp his judgment. 



Mr. Hamlin continued to stir up people by caus- 

 tic remarks, and I give a sample reply, a letter sent 

 to me February 5, 1889, from Philadelphia: 



" Mr. Hamlin has dreamed too long and has not 

 been awake long enough to know that the intelligence 

 of the following gentlemen who trot their fast horses 

 in races has never been doubted, and they do not 



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