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trot any horse in the whole country, and haul that 

 butch er-vy agon after him. Mr. Berry often made the 

 remark, that he had the most bottom and best game 

 of any horse he ever saw. In the si:)ring of eighteen 

 hundred and forty-four, he was fixed up a little, and 

 advertised to stand for mares at Kew Milford and 

 Warwick, Orange County, N. Y. ; to insure a mare in 

 foal for seven dollars ; pedigree given in full ; and war- 

 ranted to haul a wagon on the road a mile in three 

 minutes. From some cause he served but very few 

 mares — in Warwick, we think not any. In August of 

 the same season (eighteen hundred and forty-four), 

 Mr. Berry sold him to Mr. John Blauvelt, a silver- 

 smith in New York City, for three hundred and fifty 

 dollars, and a set of single harness. Mr. Blauvelt used 

 him for a road horse, and, as he says, the best he ever 

 rode behind, for pluck, bottom, and speed; but the 

 hard roads and hard drives soon showed the weak 

 points of his dam — his feet giving out, and quarter- 

 cracks making their appearance, he was sent up to 

 Mr. Berry, to be wintered and cured. The next 



