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and Louis used to drive me into Montreal with this horse. I remember the 

 father of this horse ; they were as much alike as two peas. The sire was the 

 Renaud Horse, owned at Vercheres by Monsieur Renaud, and was then ten 

 years old. I don't know more than you where the Renaud Horse came 

 from. We had lots of arguments for forty years as to where the Dansereau 

 horses came from, but never came to any conclusion about it. Louis sold 

 this big-necked stallion, when he was young, to a Mr. Cyr of Montreal. I 

 never knew anything of his dam. Louis had one colt left, after selling this 

 stallion to Cyr. This colt amounted to little, and was gelded ; a good work 

 horse, but nothing more. Marcelle, the oldest brother of Louis, bred to the 

 big-necked horse, and ten years after Louis bought of Marcelle a grandson 

 of his original stallion. Marcelle drove this stallion to my wedding. In 

 this intervening time often years Louis had some horses, but they were only 

 fairly good, as good perhaps as the horse bought back from Marcelle. In 

 these years I was with Louis' horses all the time. When I was eighteen or 

 nineteen years old, Louis went to Montreal and traded one of his horses 

 with an American, for an American mare, and gave ten dollars to boot. He 

 left here, and went to Montreal, and met there, in the market-place, the 

 American, with this mare. She was an American mare and apparently in foal. 

 She was not tall, but round-barrelled, not fast ; but very spirited ; never stopped, 

 but always on the move. A very extraordinary mare on the road, and had 

 no equal. I should think she was then about twelve or fourteen years old, 

 very black. Louis became afraid she might not breed because of her age. 

 With this mare was the beginning of Louis' fast stock. Neither Louis 

 nor any of his brothers had owned especially good or fast horses before 

 except the first big-necked stallion. From the first mare Louis raised 

 only one colt, a filly. The morning she was foaling her second foal 

 she died. When Louis made the Montreal trade he supposed the mare to 

 be in foal, and got her for the new blood. After bringing the mare home she 

 was found not in foal and Louis bred her to a horse at Contre-Coeur, owned 

 by a neighbor named Pierre Fiset. This horse was a brown or reddish 

 pacer, and came from Sorel, I think. Fiset had the horse five or six years. 

 No one knows his breeding. He paced in races with the Caribou Horse. 

 This foal was a mare, and never had any equal. She was fast as the wind, 

 and no match could be made with her. She was black, and a pacer. Louis 

 raised a good many colts from her, I think as many as a dozen. He let her 

 out several times, to parties who desired to raise a colt from her, but he 

 always bought her back before she foaled. She was raced a number of years 

 before she was bred, and was perhaps six when she had her first colt ; then 

 was bred to a number of stallions. Her first foal my brother had. It was a 

 filly, and was sired by a red stallion owned at St. Denis by a man named 

 Cagetan. I never saw the sire, but he was called a pretty horse. This filly 

 was a trotter ; with her in three hours I have driven to Longuceil, got my 

 brother, and driven back in three hours more, making sixty miles in six 

 hours. My brother raised a beautiful mare from this filly. I don't know 

 what became of her, and don't know of any other colts raised from her. 



