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her 1 4th, 1886, aged thirty-one. When three his name was changed 

 from Macomb Chief to Magna Charta. 



Magna Charta is said to have been a winner when three, but 

 these races are not recorded in Chester. When four he got a race 



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record of 2 133 j, making him the champion four-year-old trotter of 

 the world, succeeding the 2 136 of Ethan Allen, made six years be- 

 fore. Of recorded races Magna Charta trotted eighteen, winning ten. 



E. G. Newhall writes: " He was scarce fifteen hands; the 

 heaviest I ever knew him to weight was nine hundred and ten pounds ; 

 in condition for trotting about eight hundred and twenty-five, but I 

 have seen good horsemen guess his weight at eleven and twelve 

 hundred on the track, as he was always so lofty, and the faster he 

 went the larger he looked. His size was always against him in 

 the stud. He was kind up to 1863, when his disposition was spoiled 

 by abuse of groom. From this on there were times when he would 

 exhibit a very ugly temper. The record given him is 2:31, but it 

 should be 2 128^, which he made in a race against Cooley, that he 

 won, at Madison, Wisconsin, 1867". 



Mr. L. Dean of Girard, Michigan writes: "He was one of the 

 handsomest horses in harness I have ever seen and took the prize 

 both for speed and beauty wherever shown. Could he have had the 

 advantages of training that horses now possess I am persuaded that 

 few if any could have out-trotted him. He retained all his courage 

 till the day of his death and was sick only two hours". 



Our information of the dam came from J. R. Mathews, Seymour, 

 Indiana, who owned her, and D. Pritchard, Seymour, Indiana, and 

 Henry Pritchard, Barnes, Indiana, sons of John R. Pritchard who 

 bred her. 



