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THE HORSE. 



Toimg, or Vernol's Black Hawk, is by Black Hawk, his dam 

 by Old Kentucky Whip, his great grand dam on the female 

 Bide, the famous trotting Shakespere mare. 



Lady Suffolk was by Engineer, a thoroughbred son of 

 Engineer by Messenger — her dam by Plato, also a son of 

 Messenger. 



Awful was by thoroughbred American Boy, I believe, out 

 of a thoroughbred mare. 



Trustee was by imported Trustee out of the trotting-mare 

 Fanny Pullen, believed to be of good blood. 



Pocahontas is by thoroughbred Cadmus, out of an, at least, 

 half-bred Shakespere mare. 



And, lastly, the Morgans claim to be descended from thorough 

 blood, although the claim cannot be proved. 



PEDIGREE OF THE MORGANS.* 



I have just ascertained a fact, which deserves to be recorded 

 here, as it absolutely sets at rest the question of True Briton's 

 parentage by the imported horse, Moreton's Traveller. 



Traveller was foaled by Bay Bloody Buttocks to Mr. Croft's 

 Partner, in one of the years 1745-'6, or '7. The American Stud 

 Book says about 1748 ; but in 1748 she missed to Croft's Part- 

 ner, and, in 1749, bore her last colt to Forester. 



Selah Norton's advertisement of 1791, in the Hartford Cou- 

 rant, states that True Briton was then in his prime. 



This is never said of a horse exceeding, at the ntmost, twelve 

 years old. 



Now, if True Briton were twelve years old in 1791, and the 

 son of Moreton's Traveller foaled in 1747, that horse must have 

 been thirty-two years old when he got him, which is absurd. 



0\\ if Moreton's Traveller got him in his twenty-second year, 

 the oldest at which a stallion is ever recorded tohave got a per- 

 fect foal, True Briton, his son, was in his prime at twenty-two, 

 which is absurd. 



Ergo, True Briton was not son of Moreton's Traveller. — 

 Q. E. D. 



* I may here state that I have fallen into an error on page 150 of this vol., in 

 describing Mambrino, by American Eclipse out of Grand Duchess, as the sire of the 

 trotting-mare Betsey Baker. Her sire was the trotting-horse Mambrino, son of Mes- 

 senger. 



