THE MORGAN HORSE 



dam of Madame Temple. Flora Temple has, we believe, more races to her credit than any 

 trotter that has yet lived. She was, too, the first to trot below 2 :2O. Her pedigree is given 

 correctly in the "Breeders' Stud Book" by J. H. Sanders, but we have never seen it so any- 

 where else. She is generally said to be by Bogus Hunter, son of Kentucky Hun- 

 ter; but there never was a horse called Bogus Hunter, nor any called Bogus, got 

 by any horse named Kentucky Hunter. A son of Ferguson's Kentucky Hunter, 

 and Bogus, by Lame Bogus, were bred by G. W. W. Loomis, Sangerfield, Oneida 

 county, N. Y., and both owned by the Loomises when Flora was bred. The following 

 letter received by us from Samuel Welch, who we found to be universally regarded as an in- 

 telligent and very truthful man, is decisive as to which horse got Flora. Mr. Welch allows 

 himself to use the name "Bogus Hunter" for Bogus, which we and others used in writing to 

 him, though in closing the letter he says the horse's name was Bogus, and this is what we 

 found it was when later we visited Oneida county, and interviewed the son of his breeder. 

 The name of the horse was Bogus, after his sire, and he was known as Loomis' Bogus: 



REEDSBURG, Wis., March 18, 1887. 



DEAR SIR : Yours making further enquiries in relation to Flora Temple is at hand. 

 Cannot say that Bogus Hunter was any relation to One-eyed Kentucky Hunter. They did 

 not look alike. One-eyed Hunter was a small chestnut horse, and Bogus Hunter was a large 

 sorrel horse with three white feet and a white stripe in his face. Both horses were there 

 when I bred the mare. I bred her to Bogus Hunter. The mare was not taken to the horse 

 but once and I took her myself and saw her covered. 



I cannot tell whether the two horses were in any way related or not. I don't know. 

 The horses did not look at all alike. Bogus Hunter was a large, rangy horse, high-headed. 

 One-eyed Hunter was not so large and the mare was small; would weigh only eight or nine 

 hundred; so I bred to the largest horse. Hogtts'is what they called the horse I bred the mare 

 to. I knew the horse for a number of years. I only lived a mile and a half from where the 

 horse was kept and knew him well. 



Respectfully yours, 



SAMUEL WELCH. 



Florence, third line. The record of Don Carlos should be 2:28^4 and of Roscoe C. 

 2:3014-. 



Page 875; Forest Patchen. Read, trotted 1880-84. 



Frank Munson. For "Peach River" read Perch River. 



Fred Tyler, second line. Instead of "Sutton, Mo.," read Sutton, Mass. 



General. The dam of this horse was bred by Lawrence Coughty, Barnard, Vt. 



Page 876; Gen. Howard. The dam of Gen. Howard was purchased by John Lowe in 

 Milwaukee, Wis., of a drover. 



Gen. Sherman. This pedigree is taken from "Sander's Trotting Stud Book" L. Brod- 

 head, Spring Station, Ky., writes : "I have tried to locate Gen. Sherman but could not. I 

 have not been able to establish the fact that he was bred at Woodburne." Gen. Sherman 

 was owned at one time by A. C. Fisk, Coldwater, Mich. 



George A. Mr. Moulton bought the dam of George A. of Jonathan Bigelow of Bos- 

 ton, who writes that he bought her of John Holman, Cambridge, Mass., and knows nothing 

 of her pedigree or where she was bred. 



Page 877; Geo. M. Patchen Jr. The dam of this horse was bred by Joel Middleton 

 (who sold to Nathan Hendrickson, Crosswicks, N. J., and he to Joseph Regan), and was got 

 by Gray Eagle, owned by Joseph Mount, Mercer county, N. J., and that was kept at Trenton; 

 2d dam said to be a Trafalgar. This pedigree is furnished by Nathan Hendrickson, her 

 second owner, who writes that he looked it up very carefully. The pedigree of this dam 

 has always, hitherto, been given incorrectly. 



Page 878; Goldsmith Maid. Goldsmith Maid was one of the greatest trotters 



