DESCENDANTS OF DAVY CROCKETT 777 



power, fine style and action, fine disposition and a very fast pacer in his day. 

 His stock was gentle and kind. He sired more strictly good saddle or road 

 horses than any ten sires of his day. They were almost universally gentle 

 and kind to work or ride and they had a great power of endurance ". 



Sire of dam of Molsey 2:21%, winner of 12 races. 



DAVY CROCKETT (GAVINS') 



Bay or brown, 16 hands; foaled 184-; bred by Robert P. Cavins, 

 Clark county, Ky. ; got by Blackburn's Davy Crockett. Passed to Mr. Ed- 

 mondson ; to Reuben Elkins, Madison county, Ky. ; to Samuel Henderson 

 near Pine Grove, Ky., where he died. A very fast pacer ; appearance and 

 action good; somewhat rough about the hips, rump a little sloping. He be- 

 came blind. M. D. Featheringill, Pine Grove, Ky., writes : " The pedigree 

 of the dam of Gavins' Davy Crockett never could be traced ". 



DAVY CROCKETT (PARISH'S) 



Foaled 1 86- ; said to be by Gavins' Davy Crockett. Owned by Mr. Parish, 

 Clark county, Ky. 



Dam of Humbolt 2 120. 



DONIPHAN 



Bay, 15^4 hands ; foaled about 1846 ; bred by H. M. H. Taylor, Clark 

 county, Ky. ; got by Gavins' Davy Crockett, son of Blackburn's Davy 

 Crockett : dam sorrel, bred by H. M. H. Taylor, got by Pilot; 2d dam said 

 to be by Copperbottom ; and 3d dam a Xarragansett. Kept at Colby 

 and Franklin county, Ky. ; went to Missouri, but returned, and died the 

 property of Colby & Taylor, Franklin county, Ky. A very muscular horse of 

 good appearance and action, and very kind disposition ; stock excellent. 



Sire from Daughter : Clark Chief Jr., 4. 



DRENNON (BRIXKER'S) 



Brown, 15^ hands; foaled about 1842 ; bred by James Adams, Pleasure- 

 ville, Ky. ; got by Blackburn's Davy Crockett : dam bay, high-strung and a 

 fine mare, bought, by Mr. Adams, of P. Johnson, a neighbor, who traded for 

 her with a man that was moving south from Indiana, breeding unknown. 

 Sold to Austin Duprey, Henry county, Ky., for $40 ; then, when over 1 2 

 years old, at auction, to Henry Brinker, Henry county, for $3300 ; later to parties 

 in Fayette county, Ky., where he died, 1870. He was a fine saddle horse and 

 could rack, pace and trot very fast ; was seldom if ever beaten in a fair ring. 



J. H. Harding, of Pleasureville, Ky., writes of him to the editor of the 

 " Kentucky Stock Farm" : " He was very fond of music, and after going 

 through his paces he would march to the center of the fair-ring, and, throw- 

 ing up his tail and looking aloft at the musicians, would call for music as 



