Walk-in-the-Water, a Remarkable Racer 257 



The groom was washing old Walk-in-the-water's legs 

 while he stood calm and majestic, with his game, intelli- 

 gent head, large brilliant eyes, inclined shoulders and 

 immense windpipe, looking every inch a hero. When 

 Uncle Berry came to him he threw his arms around his 

 neck and said, bursting into tears, "Here's a poor man's 

 friend in a distant land!" 



Walk-in-the-water won more long races than any horse 

 of his day. 1 



1 NOTE BY J. D. A. Peter Faggan, called "Cabin Point," was 

 a free man of color known to all lovers of music and dancing from 

 James River to Roanoke, as one who "made the best bow and drew 

 the most interesting bow." Maj. A. J. Davie, then owner of Sir 

 Archy, was one day in the town of Halifax, N.C., and heard Jarrard 

 Weaver ask an officer if he had collected some money due him from 

 Peter Faggan. The officer answered that he had not and had little 

 prospect of getting the money soon; whereupon Davie suggested 

 that Weaver allow Faggan to pay in music. Weaver demurred. 

 Davie next asked the privilege of cancelling the debt by permitting 

 Weaver to breed a highly prized pacing mare he was then riding, to 

 Sir Archy. Weaver agreed to do this; he went that day to Maj. 

 Davie' s home at New Hope, bred the mare and Walk-in-the- 

 water was the produce. 



At 3 years of age Weaver's colt won a "corn race" so easily that he 

 attracted the attention of Col. William Wynn, and J. D. Amis, and 

 they, being subscribers to a post stake and having no colt to run, 

 purchased him for $600; he won the race. Under the name of 

 Young Timoleon he won many hard fought victories on various 

 tracks from Petersburg, Va., to Charleston, S.C., and was then 

 brought to "the West" by Wade Bynum, and in various hands con- 

 tinued his successful career. He is said to have "travelled farther, 

 run more long distance races, and to a greater age than perhaps 

 any horse in the world." 



