FLOBA TEMPLE S PEDIGKEE. 233 



But to proceed — 



" Old Highlander, the sire of Kentucky Hunter, was got by 

 Paymaster, son of Blake " — misprint for Blank. " His dam by 

 Herod, his g. dam by Eclipse, Lis g. gd. by Ancestor " — another 

 misprint for Ancaster — " son of Bolton Starling, his g. g. gd. 

 by Wildair ! ! " 



The only American horse, Highlander, is by Old Sharke, 

 ont of Young Seliraa — foaled 1796. 



There are no such American horses, nor ever were, as Pay- 

 master, Blank, Ancaster Starling, or Bolton Starling. Wildair, 

 who was in America, is foisted into this tissue of folly and for- 

 gery, to give it an air of verisimilitude. 



There was an English horse, Paymaster, by Blank. But his 

 dam was not by Herod, nor his gd. by Eclipse, nor his g. gd. by 

 Ancaster Starling, nor his g. g. gd. by Wildair, who, by the 

 way, was not foaled until the Ancaster Starling was fifteen 

 years old, which makes it slightly improbable that the Ancaster 

 Starling should have got foals out of his, Wildair's, daughters. 



Paymaster, by Blank, was out of Snapdragon, by Snap, gd. by 

 Pegulus g. gd. by Bartlett's Childers, g. gd. by Honeywood's 

 Arabian, g. g. gd. dam of the two True Blues. 



It is hardly necessary to add that Paymaster never came to 

 America, nor got any colt named Highlander out of Nancy 

 Dawson or any other mare. 



The points which render the intention to deceive in this 

 false pedigree unmistakable, is the mixing up of the names of 

 horses known to be connected with American blood, as King 

 Herod, the grandsire of Sir Archy — or to have been in America, 

 as Wildair — mixing them up also out of sequence, and in defi- 

 ance of date and order. 



It may appear that this is breaking a butterfiy upon the 

 wheel — but no pain or labor are ever wasted in nailing to the 

 counter so base a coin as a forged pedigree, or in exposing the 

 rascality by which one is concocted. 



It is so dangerous and so rapidly growing an evil, that, if 

 stringent legislative means be not taken to prevent it, there will 

 soon be no safety in breeding to any horse relying on any testi- 

 monial. 



I may add that there was a fine gray English horse, High- 



