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Ionian, who was then but little known to fame. Mr. Harry 

 Felter had received her as a gift from Mr. Welch, of Philadelphia, 

 not the worthy owner of Leamington and Flora Temple, but the 

 great circus proprietor. Dolly Spanker died in foaling a little bit 

 of a brown colt. He was brought up by hand, on a, diet of cow's 

 milk and old Jamaica rum, properly sweetened with loaf sugar. 

 In all this his history was very similar to that of the little colt of 

 Partizan and The Fawn in England, who was fed on new milk and 

 port wine, and was so small when a yearling, that they were 

 ashamed to offer him for sale. But old John Day saw him, bought 

 him, and trained him, and he was ever afterwards the horse of his 

 heart — -Venison, sire of Kingston and Alarm, and one of the best 

 and gamest little horses himself that ever looked through a bridle. 

 The son of Hambletonian and Dolly Spanker throve tolerably 

 well, and grew into a very remarkable, though rather small horse. 

 I first saw him at the stable of the late Horace Jones, at the 

 Union Course, when he vias five years old. He was dark brown 

 in color, fifteen hands high, of good length and substance, and 

 very high indeed behind. His hind leg, when straightened out 

 in action, as he went at his best pace, reminded me of that of a 

 duck in swimming. In the following year he was matched 

 against Ethan Allen, in harness, and beat him, in three heats, on 

 the Fashion Couise, the fastest being better than 2m. 25s. He was 

 much the best six year old trotter that I had then seen, and the 

 best judges thought him capable of going in 2m. 20s., or better. 

 I think it is quite certain that he would have trotted down below 

 2m. 20s. sometime or another, and very likely a great deal below 

 it, but for certain causes. His then owner was Mr. E. Z. Sim- 

 mons, and afterwards he was the property of Mr. William Sim- 

 mons. They are both men of ability, but the management of that 

 horse was not wise. While he was still six years old, he was 

 matched against General Butler, the latter to go under saddle, 

 while the stallion went in harness. Now, the famous "Contra- 

 band" was nothing like as good a horse as the stallion in harness. 



