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about the horse when I first knew him. It has been said 

 that he was got by a thoroughbred imported horse, and I 

 have no doubt that his ancestry was well bred. His form, 

 temper, and general characteristics denoted a horse of very 

 considerable breeding ; but the definite accounts that I have 

 heard and seen in regard to it rest upon insufficient authority 

 to satisfy me. He was not the coarse, ungainly horse that 

 many suppose him to have been. His points were good, 

 chough some of them were rather plain, and every thing 

 about him indicated a horse of uncommon resolution and 

 bottom, with a strong dash of temper. 



When I first saw Dutchman he was five years old, and 

 belonged to Mr. Jeffers of Philadelphia. He worked in a 

 string-team in a brick-cart, 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 a wagon. 

 He could then go a little better than a mile in three 

 minutes. Mr. Jeffers soon sold him to Mr. Peter Barker 

 of New York, and he had him pricked and docked. The 

 operation was performed by George Hazard, and before 

 Dutchman had entirely recovered from its effects hfe was 

 engaged for his first trot. The match was mile and repeat, 

 in harness, with a horse called Locomotive, to go on the 

 Harlem track. It v^as made in a hurry one afternoon, and 

 Dutchman was taken out of the pulleys the next day to 

 trot. Harry Jones drove him, and Albert Conklin was 

 behind the other horse. Dutchman won this in two heats. 



The same year, later in the fall, he trotted a match for 

 $1,000 a side, from Cato's to Harlem, along Third Avenue. 

 The distance was about four miles, and they went to road- 

 wagons. Mr. Barker drove Dutchman. The other, a brown 

 gelding called Yankee Doodle, was driven by Mr. Daniel 

 Costar of New York. Dutchman won easily. His speed 

 and bottom were now so well thought of, that in 1836 he 

 was entered in a sweepstakes with Fanny Pullen and Con- 

 fidence. Fanny Pullen was afterwards the dam of the 



