232 THE HOltSE. 



swearers to this notable pedigree had not a conception what an 

 Arabian stallion is. Therefore, they stand acquitted here of 

 fraud. 



All that appears tangibly thus far, on the side of Flora's dam, 

 is this — that she was got by a s].)otted trotting stallion, about 

 whom nothing is known, but who is said by conmion rumor to 

 be the son of some Arabian or other, out of a Long Island com- 

 mon mare. Flora's grandam is not pretended to be other than 

 a common country mare. 



When we come, however, to the father's side, we find a 

 pedigree cooked up alternately out of the American and Eng- 

 lish stud-books, displaying a mixture of ignorance and cunning 

 rarely to be paralleled, and, with scarcely a step right from 

 beginning to end, either in the American or English portions. 

 Ignorance alone could not have done this, for by no natural 

 blundering could such a mass of heterogeneous blunders have 

 been brought about. 



So strange is the labyrinth, that even the practised eye of 

 that admirable sporting writer " Observer," misled, perhaps, by 

 a couple of false prints in the columns of the Sj)irit, although he 

 saw at a glance that the pedigree is false and worthless, failed to 

 detect the forgery or find the clue. 



It runs thus, — 



Flora's sire was " One-eyed Kentucky Hunter," his dam, a 

 chestnut Sir Henry mare, was brought from Kentucky to East 

 Hartford, Oneida County, N. Y., where Kentucky Hunter was 

 foaled." He was the son of " Old Kentucky Hunter." " Old 

 Kentucky Hunter was got by Old Highlander, out of Col. Tall- 

 madge's full-bred mare, Nancy Dawson," no sire given — "grand 

 dam Dido, who was got by the full-bred horse King Fergus, 

 from a full-bred mare of Sir Peter Teazle." 



Note here, that out of seven JSTancy Dawsons in the Ame- 

 rican Stud-book — Edgar's — not one is out of Dido — that out of 

 five Didos in the American Stud-books, not one is by King 

 Fergus, or out of a Sir Peter Teazle mare. 



Note, also, that the only American horse, King Fergus, by 

 Hyazim, out of Virgin, was not foaled until 1833, and therefore 

 could not by any earthly means have been the g. g'. g. grand 

 sire of a mare foaled as Flora was, in 1845. 



