ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 995 



Page 906; Shepard Knapp Jr., fourth line. Omit "bred by J. E. Bonney." The breeder 

 of this mare is not known. She was said to be by Royal Oak, son of Quimby Messenger. 



Page 907 ; Charley Ford. The dam of Charley Ford was foaled in Shelby Township, 

 Mass., 1858, and said to be by the Emerson Horse that was brought from Kentucky, and 

 thought to be a descendant of Gray Eagle, thoroughbred. 



Snow Flake. The breeding of Nellie Taylor, the dam of Snow Flake, is, as yet, en- 

 tirely untraced. She may have been owned by a Mr. Vanderbilt, but probably was not 

 thoroughbred. 



Sir William Wallace 2:22 i.,. This pedigree appears as given in Thompson's Maine 

 Bred Horses, but F. X. Whiting of Hampden, Me., writes that Louis Napoleon, sire of the 

 Robinson Horse, was a Morgan horse brought from Vermont. 



Sorrel Ned. There were two geldings of this name. The one said to be by Morgan 

 Kagle trotted 1849-50, winning four races. The other was purchased, when four, in New 

 York city, where he was said to have been brought from Canada by R. Dempster. This last 

 trotted 1858-63, winning 13 races. 



Page 909; Tacony. For "Trompeau" read Trumpour. 



Tanner Boy 2 :22 1 v>. This gelding was owned by T. D. Barker, Walden, N. Y. 

 tThomas Jefferson. The following letter from William B. Smith of Hartford, Conn., is 

 the most authentic statement of the tracing of the dam of Thomas Jefferson which we 

 have yet seen : 



" ^ v P s y Q ueen > who was first known at Rochester, N. Y., as a four-year-old, could trot 

 in 3:00, and was called a Black Hawk; was in the hands of a man handling, or tending, a 

 Black Hawk stallion. She was sold to a Mr. Barker who had the auction rooms, corner of 

 130 Broadway and 39th street, New York, for so long, at $225. He sold her at Chicago for $400. 

 Her new owners called her a Glenco from Kentucky, as they did Robert Bonner's Lady 

 Palmer, which Gypsy Queen beat in her first race at Chicago. Graves and Loomis of 

 Chicago bought her of Mr. Barker. Bidwell, the trainer and driver, owned her when Mr. 

 Yail bought her at Louisville, Ky. I bought her of Yail. She died mine. She was brought 

 here to trot against the Admans Mare in ten miles, but they never got together." 



Page 910; Topsy. Petit Coq, or Beppo, was also called the Shaffer Pony and we pre- 

 sume is the horse referred to in this pedigree. If so, he was sorrel with white face and legs. 

 This horse was foaled the property of F. X. Prive, Vercheres, P. Q., and is largely of the 

 Dansereau blood, although there is some question as to what particular horse got him. 

 Petit Coq was sold in Canada about 1849 for $1550; went to New York and afterwards to 

 Pennsylvania, and, about 1860, returned to Canada. He was high-headed, showy and could trot 

 in 2 130. H. Eppihimer of Reading, Penn., who furnished this pedigree, says : "The Shaffer Pony 

 was a natural-born trotter and had the faculty of imparting that quality to his colts, as they 

 nearly all could trot". 



Page 911; Unknown 2:23. The dam of this horse was by Morgan Trotter, son of 

 Premium Morgan, instead of " Green Mountain Morgan," as given. 



Page 91 2; Western Metropolis 2 130. This gelding was foaled in the 4o's, and owned 

 by Eber Adams, Adrian, Mich., and thought by parties in Adrian to have been by Hunger- 

 ford's Blucher (that was taken to Adrian, Mich., by Mr. Adams), son of Duroc. A. J. Wheeler, 

 Toledo, O., who remembers the horse well, thinks that Conlisk, who owned him, always 

 claimed that he was by Cone's Bacchus. 



Westmont 2:24. This horse, a very elegant one, which quality he undoubtedly 

 largely gets from the Diomed blood through his dam, has sailed under a false pedigree for 

 many years. The pedigree here given (certainly as good as the false one), is from his 

 breeder, and breeder of his dam, one of whom writes that he knew the party in Missouri 

 who made the spurious pedigree. 



William Benham. Instead of " Birt Clay" read Whip Clay. 



