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and made him a trotter, and finally sold him for a trotter's 

 price, $3,150. 



W. A. McNulty is about forty years of age, nearly 

 six feet tall, straight as an arrow, and a native of Penn- 

 sylvania. He imigrated to Missouri a number of years 

 ago. locating in Sedalia, and engaged in the feed business, 

 with an eye to the purchase and sale of a good horse as 

 a side issue. It requires but a few moments' conversa- 

 tion with him to impress you that here is a keen, clear- 

 cut man of excellent judgment; a gentleman by nature 

 and education, one — to use a horsey expression — who is 

 level-headed and can go the clip and go it on a trot with- 

 out making a break. 



The breeding of McDoel, according to McNulty, dif- 

 fers from that published. He was by the Phillips Horse, 

 not the Waters Horse. The Phillips Horse was brought 

 from Kentucky, and was saddle and running bred with a 

 trotting cross or two. He was used as a saddle horse, 

 and sired a small family principally saddlers, good look- 

 ers and good sellers, but none with trotting speed, so far 

 as known. The dam of McDoel was by a Morgan horse, 

 brought from Illinois to Sedalia. His get were all quite 

 speedy. This dam Mr. McNulty owns. She is a brown 

 mare about fifteen and a quarter hands, very smoothly 

 turned, with a wavy mane and tail, and of strongly 

 marked Morgan conformation, somewhat on the pony pat- 

 tern, yet withal having some inexpressible thing about 

 her reminding you of her great son, but entirely lacking 

 his rakish look that your boyish memory holds of the 

 pirate craft of the Spanish main. She has a turn of 

 speed herself, and, untrained, can step below a three- 

 minute gait. Her dam was of unknown breeding, but of 

 great local reputation in her parts as an untiring, all-day 



