9 1 2 THE MOR CAN HORSE 



Woodford county, Ky., got by Woodford, thoroughbred son of Koscuisko, by Sir Archy. 

 Trotted 1877-81. 



WESTERN METROPOLIS (Black Frank) 2 130, and winner of 12 races, bl. g., 15 hands; 

 foaled about 1850; said to be by Pony Frank, son of Frank, by Pendergast's Young St. 

 Lawrence. Trotted 1857-60.' 



WESTMONT 2:24, and winner of 17 races, b. h.; foaled 1877; bred by Richard Harlow, 

 Breckenridge, Mo.; got by Col. West, son of Almont, by Alexander's Abdallah : dam 

 Fanny, bred by J. Downing, Breckenridge, Mo., and sold by him to Richard Harlow, got by 

 Wild Bill, son of Moore's Cherokee, a descendant of Cherokee, son of Sir Archy : 2d 

 dam brown, purchased by J. Downing of Harry Boggis, Moreton, Mo. Trotted 1882-84. 



WHALEBONE 2:29, and winner of 15 races, br. g., 16 hands, noo pounds; foaled 1867; 

 bred by Geo. W. Lathrop, Oxford Junction, la. ; got by Curtis Horse : dam bay, bred by 

 A. M. Courtright, Oxford Mills, la., got by Duke of Orleans; 2cl dam bay, bred by Geo. 

 W. Lathrop, got by Wonder, thoroughbred. Trotted 1871-77. 



WHITE CLOUD 2 125^4, and winner of 10 races, gr. g., 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 

 May, 1867; bred by Peltier Richards, Warrensburgh, N. Y.; got by Joe Brown, son of 

 Woodard's Rattler, by Biggart's Rattler : dam bay, said to be bred in Vermont, and got by a 

 French horse called Poscora. Trotted 1872-78. 



WHITE STOCKING 2:33^, and winner of 18 races, ch. g.; foaled 1856. Trotted 1860-70. 



WHITE STOCKINGS 2 :2I, and winner of 14 races, b. g., bald face and four white legs, 

 1 6} o hands, 1300 pounds; foaled May 17, 1867; bred by J. W. Eastin, Kearney, Mo.; 

 got by Blackwell's Hambletonian,son of Luckett's Hambletonian : dam Sea-serpent Laura, 

 taken from Kentucky to Missouri, and said to be by a horse called Sea-serpent. Trotted 

 1874-77. Died 1890. 



WILL CODY 2:19}^, and winner of 29 races, b. g., 15^3 hands, 1000 pounds; bred by 

 Wm. L. Kenner, Rushville, Ind., foaled June 12, 1871, the property of R. H. Homer, Henry 

 Co., Ind.; got by Wilson's Blue Bull: dam Celia, gray, 15}^ hands, owned when quite 

 young near Connersville, Fayette Co., Ind., where she was purchased by a Mr. Gregg, for 

 $22, at a sale of her owners, who moved to Missouri and afterwards to Texas. We have 

 received the following letter concerning the dam, dated at Connersville, Ind., Dec. 14, 

 188-: " In regard to the breeding of the dam of Will Cody,would say my father bought her 

 at a sale of an old man by the name of Stone. The mare was a gray, 15^-0 hands; had one 

 hip knocked down and was a pacer and could pace a good clip. Her sire, I remember of 

 hearing my father say, was by Gray Eagle; that is all I know as to her breeding and could 

 refer you to no one else that would knew anything about her. Yours, WM. M. GREGG ". 

 Trotted 1879-84. 



WILLIAM BENHAM 2:24> 4 , and winner of 15 races, b. g.; foaled 1872; bred by Wil- 

 liam Jones, West Jefferson, O.; got by Brit Clay, son of Strader's Cassius M. Clay, by Cas- 

 sius M. Clay : dam Miss Jones, bay, captured at South Charlestown, ten miles below Lon- 

 don, O. Trotted 1881-84. 



WILLIAM H. 2:i8j^, and winner of 29 races, b. g.; foaled 1875; ^ rec ^ ^Y W- H. Saunders, 

 Clyde, N. Y.; got by Young Wilkes, son of George Wilkes : dam Marshall Mare, chestnut 

 with one white fetlock, 15)3 hands, looo pounds, foaled about 1863, died June, 1889, 

 purchased when eight years old by Wm. H. Saunders of John and Jerry Marshall, pro- 

 prietors of the Madison Avenue Stage line, New York city, both dead, said to have been 

 bred in New Jersey and got by a horse called Daniel Webster. Trotted 1879-81. 



WILLIAM H. ALLEN 2:2314, and winner of 15 races, b. h.; foaled 1865; bred by Mr. 

 Whitney, Morristown, N. J.; got by Volunteer, son of Hambletonian : dam Peggy Slender, 

 bay (dam of Mary A. Whitney), foaled, 1850, the property of Charles W 7 aters, Euclid 

 O.; 2d dam bay, bought in the fall of 1849 by Charles Waters of Messrs. Gorham and 

 Alpin, Cleveland, O., breeding unknown. Trotted 1871-76. 



