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to the sire of her granddam, for Doctor Herr believes that his siro 

 was not Sir William, of Transport, but the horse called Sir Wil- 

 liam, and got by Sir Archy out of Bellona, by Bellair. She 

 is a bay mare with black points, sixteen hands one inch and a half 

 high, a little leggy, but having great length, and a bloodlike head 

 and neck. Her eye is splendid in its fulness and steady brilliancy, 

 but she has but one, in this resembling the, famous running mare 

 Idlewild. Lady Thorn is long in all her proportions, and her 

 contour is that of the thoroughbred horse all over. Her action is 

 low and even, of the daisy-cutting character. Of all the fast trot- 

 ters that I have seen I think she bent the knee the least. Like 

 her renowned relative of the running course, Lexington, she used 

 to go stealing along like a fox, and woe to those who saw her 

 bright eye, or the blind side of her head, at their elbow, as they 

 reached the drawgates. Lady Thorn passed early into the posses- 

 sion of Doctor Herr, of Lexington, a veterinary surgeon and 

 trainer and breeder of trotters, and a saan whose talents and 

 character exalt his profession as well as himself. She was then 

 called Ashland Maid, and like many other good ones, she was 

 somewhat self-willed and unruly in her youth. If Doctor Herr 

 had not found that she possessed the gift of speed, in addition to 

 her fine points and high breeding, he would not have troubled 

 himself with her long, for she was capricious in temper and turbu- 

 lent in disposition. Her capability as a trotter was already large, 

 and her promise very great, when Doctor Herr sold her to Mr. C. 

 P. Relf, of Philadelphia. She was brought east, and for some 

 time nothing was done with her. Still her quality was suspected 

 by some and known to a few. She was in the same stable as 

 Lancet, Panic, Jilt, &c., and on one of the anniversaries of Hiram 

 Woodruff's birthday, which his friends used so fondly and joy- 

 ously to keep. Captain Moore declared in the presence of the 

 writer and another, that the big one-eyed mare could beat every horse 

 in that stable easily. This was before she had trotted a race, so 

 far aa T know, although she may have trotted at Philadelphia in 



