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was three or four years old when my uncle bought him. He was boss all the 

 time he was here. I do not know the horse that sired him. He was four or 

 five years older than Duhamel's black. I do not remember any other roan 

 horses at that time. They used to bring mares here from Vermont and 

 trade them. The dam of the Duhamel Horse was a black pacer". 



M. Recollet of Sorel said : " My father had a horse once owned by Du- 

 hamel, then by Allaire, who sold father about 1830. Father did not have him 

 over two years. I am sixty years old, and he took me to be baptized with 

 this horse. I do not know the age of the horse. Father sold him to an 

 American. He was a black pacer, fast and very handsome ; folks talk about 

 him yet. I had a grandson of his, black, fifteen and a quarter hands high, 

 that was equally handsome and fast, though not trained. The dam of this 

 sire was of the Dansereau breed and the first mare to trot fast here. The 

 sire was owned at St. Ours. Felix, a Frenchman from the States, bought 

 my horse when eight years old. He was bred to many mares while I owned 

 him. The sire was gray, fifteen hands high, a fast pacer, and got by the Allaire 

 Horse. Mr. Kittson, brother of Commodore Kittson of St. Paul, was with 

 the men that bought the Allaire Horse of my father. He lived here and died 

 about two years ago. Father paid Allaire one hundred and twenty dollars for 

 the horse and sold him to the American for one hundred and fifty dollars". 



M. Beaupre of Yamaska, born 1816, a gentleman who all his life has dealt 

 in horses, and who sold the celebrated horse Brandywine to go to Maine, said : 

 "Most of the pacers when I was a boy were French. There were not 

 many of them. I knew the Recollet Horse, a very nice fast pacer for that 

 time ; fifteen hands high, one thousand pounds or more. He was a nice, 

 good-looking French horse, not so good as Brandywine. Brandywine was a 

 great trotter. The Recollet Horse had a good shaped neck of fair length. 

 Brandywine had a slimmer neck with long body and a wider breast. The 

 Recollet Horse had a large foretop with heavy mane and tail, good crest, was 

 well cut up under the throat, had a pretty head, not a large head, legs good 

 size, large boned (larger than Brandywine), some white on two of his legs, 

 no white in face, well built, not much hair but some on the legs, //// bon 

 cheval for Canada. Shouldn't think the Dansereau horses descended from 

 him. I raced with one of the Dansereau horses in Burke in 1854 : a black 

 horse, same size as Brandywine, not quite the same shape as the Recollet 

 Horse. The Recollet Horse was more French, chunked ; the Dansereau 

 more like Brandywine. This Dansereau horse I raced with choked and died 

 on the ice at Montreal. The Le Duke Horse was the only stallion from the 

 States that I have known here. He was said to have Arabian blood". 



At a later interview M. Beaupre said : " They used to have pacing races 

 when I was a boy. Felix Hebert had a red and white pacing horse at 

 Yamaska ; the fastest one there. He was of about twelve hundred pounds 

 weight. This was about the time Recollet had his horse, or when I was about 

 fourteen years old ; Hebert raised this horse. I do not think he was French. 

 He was a good deal like a circus horse ; not so nicely built as Brandy- 



