RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



bar, 2.13!, and Burglar, 2.244) by Princeps, and 

 she out of Florence by Volunteer. Burglar, Esco- 

 bar, and Epaulet are sires of speed, but the rank of 

 Epaulet is much the highest. 



From a letter written to me by R. S. Veech No- 

 vember 14, 1904, I extract: 



" I remember with a great deal of pleasure the 

 days now forever gone, when you and your friends 

 from New York used to make an annual invasion of 

 Kentucky, as Myron P. Bush called it. The breeding 

 farms of that day, including Messrs. Alexander, West, 

 Pepper, Stoner, McFerran, McDowell, and others too 

 numerous to name, are no longer in existence, and the 

 proprietors thereof have passed over the river. Messrs. 

 Backman,Thorne, and Goldsmith are no longer among 

 the living. I alone, excepting our good friend Lucas 

 Brodhead, seem to be left to remind one of ^ those 

 happy days. My good wife, who always rejoiced 

 to meet and entertain my friends, passed away last 

 April. If I had my life to live over, I don't know 

 how it could be spent more happily than on a stock 

 farm talking horse with my friends that came to the 

 house. It was one continual life of pleasure, delight- 

 ful and innocent. For the last few years I have had 

 from eight to twelve foals each year. The grand- 

 dams of the best two-year-old trotters out this year 

 were bred at Indian Hill, and were got by Princeps." 



Mr. Veech is a quiet, thoughtful man, fond of his 

 own fireside. When sitting with him and his wife 

 in the days to which he alludes, in front of the 

 cheerful blaze, I have been reminded of the social 

 development which followed the discovery of primi- 



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