234 THE HORSE. 



lander, by Bourdeaux, dam Tetotum, by Matchem, g. g. dam 

 Lady Bolingbroke, by Squirrel, &c., imported, as it is stated in a 

 MS. note to Mr. C. H. Hall's stud-book, by an English gentle- 

 man, Mr. Harriot, who lived at Newark, N. J., and kept him 

 there, where he got good stock. This horse could not, however, 

 easily have had to do with Kentucky Hunter. 



All, therefore, that we arrive at is this, that a horse called 

 Kentucky Hunter was brought from that State to Oneida Co., 

 !N".Y., with an absurd, forged pedigree — for it is not to be supposed 

 that the witnesses, who have stupidly mixed themselves up in 

 the matter, are either parties in, or guilty of the forgery — that 

 nothing wliatever being even conjecturable concerning his 

 pedigree, he got One-eyed Kentucky Hunter out of a mare, 

 said to be by Sir Henry, her dam not described. 



This One-eyed Kentucky Hunter got Flora Temple in 1845, 

 out of a clever, well-formed, fast-trotting mare, Madame Temple, 

 who, in her turn, was got by a horse concerning whom nothing 

 at all is known, except that he was not what he is called, an 

 Arabian, out of a country mare. 



Divested of all mystery and falsification, nothing is known 

 whatever about the mare's — Flora Temple — pedigree, beyond her 

 sire and her dam. 



It is most probable that the sire had somehXoodi — what blood 

 no one can conjecture — both from the region whence he came, 

 Kentucky, long noted as a race-horse region, and from the 

 character of his stock, which certainly show blood. 



It is possible that Madame Temple may have had blood 

 also, but that is far more doubtful ; and the ftict of the horse 

 called an Arabian being spotted is against it. Spotting, unless 

 it be red on a white ground, or black on a deep gray, is not an 

 Arabian mark. White spotting on a bay ground is a Hano- 

 verian or Holstein mark ; and twenty years, or a little longer 

 ago, the country was full of bay horses, white-spotted across 

 the loins and quarters, of a very indifferent sort. 



The truth is, that the question matters not, whichever way it 

 is settled. 



As " Observer " has well observed. Flora Temple's " merit 

 rises above blood." 



With trotters it is not as it is with thoroughbreds, in whom 

 it is a blot ineradicable to have a drop of false blood — and a blot, 



