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gas' mare with Dutchman. Daniel Jeffreys heard of 

 this, and after driving the horse a few times, he bought 

 him from Tindall for about $225. 



"He had a sympathetic ailment of the eyes, result- 

 ing from the dental period, just as many another 

 young horse has had, and Jeffries turned him out to 

 pasture in a lot he kept for the purpose, as he was a 

 great horse fancier. Hence the brick cart and brick- 

 yard story, all of which originated in the fertile imagi- 

 nation of the brain of an old writer for sensational 

 purposes. Neither Dutchman nor the dam of An- 

 drew Jackson, that had been owned by Jeffries eight 

 or ten years prior to his owning Dutchman, were ever 

 worked to a brick cart. 



"The majority of these facts I had from Thomas 

 H. Irvin, himself a brickmaker, in 1867-8-9, while he 

 was living in a brick house, one of a row built on the 

 grounds of the old Haymarket lot at Fifth and Green 

 streets, within a few squares of where all of these in- 

 teresting circumstances happened in his younger days. 

 The pasture lot into which Dutchman was turned for 

 grass and liberty was the spot where Hiram Wood- 

 ruff first saw the horse." 



This is all that can be learned of the early history 

 of Dutchman, the horse that prompted Alden Gold- 

 smith to turn from agriculture and cattle to the trot- 

 ter, and whose stoutness caused him later in life, when 

 master of Walnut Grove Farm, to select as the mem- 

 bers of his stud, horses showing quality and finish, and 

 at the same time carrying a dash of thoroughbred 

 blood which had shown a disposition to go on a trot. 

 In the latter part of the fifties he purchased one mare 

 by Abdallah, seven by American Star, four by im- 



