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THE MORGAN HORSE 



plainly as a dumb brute could, which the band always gave amid the shouts 

 of the multitude. I have often heard Mr. Joseph Baker of Eminence, who 

 generally showed him, say that sitting erect in his saddle he could tie Dren- 

 non's mane around his body. Drennon lived in a day when the saddle horse 

 flourished most. If his colts had been trained for speed, he would have 

 founded a family of pacers and trotters ". 



(Besides the 2 130 trotters descended from Drennon given in following 

 tables, Manfree's Drennon is credited- with 2d dam of Billy Bird 2 1 



Races won, 23. Races lost, 36. Total races, 59. 

 Sire : Osceola, i. 



Sire from Daughter : Adjutant, 2. 



Dams of Budd Crooke 2 :i9%, Rolla 2 -.24, Lucy Fleming 2 124%. 



Second dams of Canary Bird 2 11914, Emperor Wilkes 2:20%, Ethel 6.2:19%, Lulu C. 2:19 

 and Lily H. 2:29, Sir [Roger 2:23%. 



DRENNON JR 



Bay; foaled 1856; bred by J. H. McGruder, Bardstown, Ky. ; got by 

 Drennon, son of Davy Crockett : dam said to be by Medoc ; and 2d dam by 

 Woodpecker, son of Bertrand, by Sir Archy. Owned at different times by 

 Harry Evans, St. Louis, Mo. ; George L. Bailey, Eureka, Kan., and J. P. 

 Decker, New Haven, 111. Died 1884. 



Sire of second dam of Emperor Wilkes 2 .-20%. 



DRENNON (BELL'S, JOE DRENNON) 



Roan ; bred by Thomas Grundy, Springfield, Ky. ; got by Demphy's 

 Drennon Jr., son of Drennon, by Davy Crockett : dam said to be of Copper- 

 bottom blood. Sold to Mr. Howard ; Hillary Bell, Fairfield, Ky. ; J.P. Trout- 

 man, Owensboro, Ky. ; James Miles, Eminence, Ky., about 1867 \ to parties 

 at West Louisville, Ky., where he was kept several seasons ; to James Small. 



Sire of dam of Libby S. 2 :i9%. 



OSCEOLA 



Said to be by Drennon, son of Davy Crockett. 



Races won, 21. Races lost, 48. Total races, 

 Third dam of Repetition 2:19%. 



