RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



Ford to Goshen. She was then bred back to Ham- 

 bletonian, and Lady Dexter was foaled in 1862. Dic- 

 tator came in 1863, and was sold for $1000. The 

 price received for Dexter was $400. Dictator, when 

 following his dam, showed a splendid trotting gait, 

 and his breeder thought him superior to Dexter, who 

 won the crown of the trotting turf. Dexter did not 

 show much trot until one year old, and it was in 

 snow which was thinly crusted. Clara had fourteen 

 foals, four of which died young, and all the others 

 became distinguished. Her three foals by Volun- 

 teer, Kearsarge, Hyacinth, and Corrinne, were speed 

 producers, and her sons and daughters by Hamble- 

 tonian have won the highest honors on the track and 

 in the stud. Her career was romantic, and a writer 

 who evolves a story from a single fact could fill sev- 

 eral books with her and her descendants. At the 

 age of twenty-seven Clara died, and she was buried 

 on the sunny side of a hill on the farm where she was 

 born. 



D. B. Irwin, who bred Middlet own; John Minchin, 

 who owned Young Wofel and Tom Moore; Har- 

 rison Mills, owner of Sweepstakes; J. C. Howland, 

 owner of Polonius; James M. Mills, owner of Chos- 

 roes, and Guy Miller, Thomas Morton, Amyr Van 

 Buren, and Joseph Gavin were other Orange County 

 breeders of the old school, and it was my privilege 

 to spend pleasant days with all of them. I hope that 

 recollections of these days will be revived when we 

 meet in the Beyond. 



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