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his new enterprise became, with different minds of the neighborhood, a cause 

 of surprise, regret and derision. I do not know or believe that any other 

 man in the county had a thoroughbred of either sex. I am sure Mr. Funk then 

 had (as far as he knew) no other sorts for breeding. These appear to me to 

 be important items in this question, as it stands. 



" Amongst these stallions in training or standing, there were Stockholder, 

 Archer (also by Sir Archy) ; Sea Serpent, by Shylock (I believe) ; Conqueror, 

 Whip Tiger, with other less distinguished juveniles, and, at a somewhat later 

 date perhaps, Havoc, the horse in dispute. I could, if I were not ' to inquire 

 too curiously ', give you also the names of sundry mares, fillies and colts 

 then assembled there. 



"I remember Havoc very distinctly, more so than if I had seen him last 

 year. He was not a bay, but a chestnut (or 'sorrel', as the color was then 

 called). Nor was he as dark or dull-colored as Wagner was, but a bright 

 yellowish sorrel. As to size, he was of the medium size and shape of thor- 

 oughbreds ; I think about of such proportions as Sir Archy or Sir Charles 

 may have been, guessing by their pictures in the old 'Turf Register'. 

 There never was any large bay horse called Havoc owned by Peter Funk. 

 Be assured of that fact. On this point I must stand up for my own superi- 

 ority 'of opportunities' to your other ' Beargrass boys'. Major Funk's 

 race course was entirely out of their beat. The Speed boys were good and 

 did not habituate such places. And although Ned Pearce and John Gray 

 (like the writer) were certainly 'fast' enough for any deviltry of that sort, 

 yet I have no idea that either of them ever saw Stockholder or Havoc (any 

 Havoc) in their lives. What, then, could either of them know of his size 

 or color. 



" He was reputed to be by Sir Charles. As I have almost ever since kept 

 my knowledge of pedigrees refreshed by reading in the ' American Turf Reg- 

 ister', etc., I am now unable to say whether //y part of his remaining pedi- 

 gree (by Sir Alfred, Virgo, by imported Peter Teazle, Castianira, etc.) be a 

 matter of memory derived from the reputation of the neighborhood or from 

 subsequent studies. But I think the reputed pedigree then was Havoc, by 

 Sir Charles, dam by Sir Alfred. I am quite sure, though, it was Havoc by Sir 

 Charles. Remembering now that I never in my life heard one word in dis- 

 paragement of the integrity or honor of Major Funk (unless the deplorings 

 of the ' unco-righteous ' of this race-horse business maybe construed into 

 such impeachment) do you not see in what a light your present proposition 

 must appear? We are required to believe that such a man would bring, 

 from 'a trip to Philadelphia', a farm horse of unknown breeding, 'a large 

 bay horse ', and palm him off as a thoroughbred ' Havoc, by Sir Charles, 

 Sir Alfred', and in a county, too, in which his forged pedigree (if believed) 

 would have not added one cent to his custom. If, therefore, Mr. Pope did 

 send Nancy Taylor to Mr. Funk's Havoc (as your witnesses affirm), he must 

 certainly have sent her to the chestnut horse Havoc, by Sir Charles, Sir 

 Alfred. Nor will it be pretended that, at that time, when no portion of this 

 interest (which now lies in the pedigree of Pilot Jr.) had attached to this 



