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her shoulder deep and well laid back, topping out with withers noticeably high. Her body 

 is long and she is not only long in the sweep from hip to back, but again from the latter 

 point to the ground. She is decidedly a long strider in action, and goes well apart behind 

 and in all respects is what is termed big-gaited ". Trotted 1863-70. 



LADY TURPIN 2:23, and winner of 10 races, bl. m., 16 hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 1869; 

 bred by Joseph Patterson, Rose Glade Farm, Jessamine Co., Ky.; got by Bill Morgan, son 

 of Cottrill Morgan, by Black Hawk: dam Nonesuch (dam of Kentuckian 2:27^), dark 

 bay, foaled about 1860, bred by Daniel Fryan, Ky., got byBrignoli, son of Mambrino Chief; 

 2d dam Fanny, roan, large, bred by George Womack, Middletown, Ky., got byCapt. Bragg, 

 son of Tecumseh, pacer. (Dam of Capt. Bragg by Copperbottom.) Trotted 1872-80. 



LADY UPTON 2:29, and winner of 24 races b. m., 15)^ hands, 925 pounds; foaled 

 1870; bred by L. Crook, Guilford, N. Y.; got by General Grant, owned at or near Sanger- 

 field, N. Y., and said to be of St. Lawrence blood : dam Nancy, said to be by American Eagle. 

 Trotted 1877-88. 



LADY VERNON 2:29}^, and winner of 14 races, gr. m.; foaled 1845. A party of Indiana 

 horse dealers, on their way to the New York market with horses, brought this mare to a small 

 town in New Jersey, and sold her to the hotel-keeper, who was also mail carrier between the 

 town and railroad station. He used the mare in this work, and she was found to be a fast 

 and square trotter, and was bought by a hog dealer, who sold to Jacob W. E. Somerindyke, 

 who trotted her for several years, and sold to Pat Hunt. Hunt took her to California in the 

 fall of 1853, and disposed of her to his partner, Edward Fulton, who trotted her several 

 races, and upon leaving California left her with Charles Lux as security for a loan of $1200. 

 Soon after Josiah Sessions took the mare, paying Mr. Lux the $1200 he had loaned. Mr. 

 Sessions owned her until she died, about 1873, though S. B. Whipple had a half interest in 

 her for a number of years. She was the dam of about 12 foals, one of which was Oakland 

 Maid 2:22. Trotted 1852-58. 



LADY WALTON (Lady Franklin) 2:33, and winner of II races, b. m. Purchased, when 

 three, by Wm. Vaughn, Melrose, Mass. Trotted 1867-71. 



LADY WHITMAN (Huntress) 2:30, and winner of 16 races, b. m.; foaled 1861; bred by 

 Samuel J. Whitman, Chester, N. Y.; got by Seely's American Star, son of Colburn's 

 American Star: dam Nance (dam of Nancy Whitman), bred by Henry Thompson, Dur- 

 lands, N. Y., got by Durland's Young Messenger Duroc, son of Messenger Duroc (Law- 

 rence Horse). Trotted 1868-70. 



LANCET (Know Nothing) 2 127)4 (2:25 s.), and winner of 22 races, bl. g., 15}^ hands, 

 looo pounds; foaled 1849; bred by Lothrop Chamberlin, Brownington, Vt.; got by 

 Black Hawk, son of Sherman Morgan: dam old Squaw, black, foaled 1837, bred by 

 Robert Snow, Barnston, P. Q., got by Mathews Horse, son of Cock of the Rock, by 

 Duroc; 2d dam brought to Barnston, when three years old, from the French country, by John 

 Jones of Barnston, who sold her to Mr. Snow, called half French and half English. 

 Sold, 1850, to T. Winn, who sold to John Langley, Boston, Mass. Trotted 1854-62. 



LATHAM 2:3314, and winner of 14 races, br. s. with small star and left hind ankle 

 white, about 14% hands, 900 pounds; foaled 1856; bred by C. B. Richardson, Brock- 

 ton, 111.; got by Platt's Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk: dam bay, said to be by 

 Snip Printer, a running horse. Taken to California by breeder, and sold to Curtis Sing- 

 terry of Maysville, for $1025; afterwards brought from California to New York, by Jack 

 Caller. Trotted 1864-74. 



LAURA WILLIAMS 2:24)^, and winner of 10 races, gr. m.; foaled 1870; bred by Luther 

 D. Stone, Charlotte, Vt. ; got by Holabird's Ethan Allen, son of Ethan Allen : dam Stone 

 mare, gray, bred by John Leonard, Orwell, Vt., got by Bullock's North American. 

 Trotted 1875-81. 



LEVIATHAN 2:31 (2:26 s.), and winner of n races, bl. h.; foaled 1858; bred by William 

 J.Bradley, Boston, Mass.; got by Jackson's Flying Cloud, son of Black Hawk: dam 



