HORSE STOCK OF MICHIGAN. 89 



Kippalo stock, who was a horse of great bottom as a traveller, 

 and a hard j work horse, but rather small. " Bay Koman," kept 

 in our State for several years, a thoroughbred, got some good 

 colts, but too small, except for the saddle ; they were tough, 

 durable horses, but did not become celebrated in consequence 

 of lack of size. In fact, we have not yet had a thoroughbred 

 here that has produced the desirable size for the popular uses of 

 this State ; yet no very superior horse has been produced that 

 was not from good blood of pretty high grade. 



Some of the stock of old American Eclipse has been kept in 

 the State, and these prove excellent horses for business, having 

 fine action and endurance. I have had two stallions of that 

 breed myself, one a son of the old horse, the other a great- 

 grandson. The latter was called Bucephalus, and was the most 

 perfect horse that I ever saw ; nor did I ever hear a person say 

 that they had ever seen a horse so perfectly beautiful. He was 

 got by Eclipse 3d, he by Long's Eclipse, and he by American 

 Eclipse. The dam of Bucephalus was got by Florizel. Bucephalus 

 was a horse of great bottom, and could run his mile in 1.56, 

 and keep it up for four miles. He was taken to California by 

 my son, and there died at the age of 11 years. I have five 

 filly foals, all from high blood mares, they are not only fast run- 

 ners, but are excellent trotters. No stock of horses has ever 

 been introduced into this section of the State possessing so much 

 bottom, style and gaiety as these colts from Bucephalus, yet un- 

 fortunately they are too small for high prices to those unacquaint- 

 ed with their superior qualities. " Post Boy," by Sir Henry, that 

 matclied John Bascombe some years since for $20,000 a side, was 

 brought to Lenawee County in this State, some four years since ; 

 he was then 21 years old. What his success has been as a stock 

 horse I have not been able to learn ; but if put to good mares 

 must undoubtedly have been good. He is a very superior horse, 

 of good size, and at Long Island was one of the best runners of 

 his day. There are many good horses in the State called the 

 Bacchus stock, got by Old Bacchus of Ohio, owned by Cone, who 

 was shot at a race-track, a noted horse-racer of that State. 

 They are the fastest horses for short races that have ever been 

 in our State, not large generally, but very strong and muscular. 

 I have the largest one, a stallion, that I ever saw, full 16 hands 



