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Philadelphia. He worked in a string team and did 

 his full share of the hauling. It was found that the 

 bay horse was a good stepper, and they began to drive 

 him on the road to wagon. He could then go a little 

 better than three minutes." 



A few years after the publication of Hiram Wood- 

 ruff's book, John H. Wallace, the founder of the 

 American Trotting Register, and who died May 2, 

 1903, at the ripe age of eighty-one, turned the light on 

 Dutchman's history. He relegated the string team 

 story to the garret to keep company with the "mile in 

 a minute" by Eclipse and Lady Thorn's record- 

 breaking trial, although H. N. Smith, the owner of the 

 mare, assured me personally that Dan Mace drove her 

 a mile in 2:11%. Wallace traced Dutchman to his 

 breeder, and as the dash and courage of the horse con- 

 vinced Alden Goldsmith that of all things wanted in a 

 light harness horse, endurance was the most essential, 

 a few notes from the pen of "the old master" on the 

 subject would not be out of place as a preface to the 

 work of the man who risked his all and won on Volun- 

 teer, the founder of a family of race horses of the same 

 stamp : 



"Dutchman was a dark bay gelding about 15.3. 

 He was foaled in 1828, got by Capt. Tuft's Tippoo 

 Saib, Jr. ; dam, Nettie, by Black Messenger, son of im- 

 ported Messenger ; grandam by Gray Swallow. 

 David Denny, the breeder of Dutchman, had two 

 mares that were somewhat distinguished in the neigh- 

 borhood ; the one called China Leg, by Atkinson's 

 Gray Mambrino, and the other, Nettie, by Black Mes- 

 senger. It was at first represented that the former 

 was the dam of Dutchman ; but a more thorough in- 



