RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



Sherman accomplished more in the stud than Coro- 

 net, and Jerome Eddy distanced both. The latter 

 was the particular thorn in the side of Mr. Hamlin. 

 In January, 1891, I received a personal letter from 

 Mr. Jewett, from which I extract: 



" You speak of Jerome Eddy, and add that the 

 Volunteer blood is slow to mature, inferring, or 

 leading the public to believe, that the get of Jerome 

 Eddy would follow Volunteer in this matter. We 

 write you, as a friend, to correct any such ideas, if 

 you have formed them, and to keep you from get- 

 ting into one of the worst holes that you could pos- 

 sibly get into. We have never handled any of 

 Jerome Eddy's get young. We are just commencing 

 to do so. We had a few of them led last year, and 

 last fall, while in Kentucky, we hired a first-class 

 colt trainer, and commenced in November to handle 

 our colts. Our colt trainer, Mr. McVey, says that 

 he thinks Jerome Eddy will prove to be one of 

 the great sires of early speed in this country. Please 

 look carefully over the blood lines of Jerome Eddy 

 and see how much Volunteer blood there would be 

 in colts sired by Jerome Eddy on this farm. Our 

 opinion is that you will be astonished when you come 

 to look the matter up closely to find that there is 

 only one-eighth Volunteer blood in our colts 

 enough to make them game, good race horses. The 

 balance of the blood in nearly all cases is the very 

 earliest speed-producing blood." 



The Henry Clay and Alexander's Abdallah blood 

 in Jerome Eddy helped the progeny of that stallion 

 to arrive at early speed. In 1891 the post office 



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