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buying these at $500 for the pair. The wheelers 

 Mr. Guy describes as having weighed probably a 

 ton apiece and entirely too big for his purpose. They 

 were held at $500 each, or just twice as much as 

 the smaller leaders. All were gray, but the pairs 

 were of quite distinct types. A few days later a 

 third stallion Avas bought, and also the mare Doll 

 540, the first ever brought directly from France west 

 of the Alleghanies. One of the pair of leaders died 

 on the ocean, the survivor being the famous Baker 

 Horse 21. His shipmate was Nonesuch 346, other- 

 wise and in his day better known as Old Bob. This 

 was probably the last impprtation ever made on a 

 sailing ship and a terribly rough voyage was en- 

 countered. Though badly battered the two stallions 

 and the mare after a time reached the Darby Plains 

 alive and each won way to high renown. Doll went 

 through many hands and proved prolific. 



Put up at auction by the importers, the unnamed 

 gray leader bought right out of the harness in the 

 streets of Rouen was purchased by Dr. Baker, from 

 whom he took his name, for lack of a better, and 

 from that year (1857) he passed through many own- 

 erships but always did well. The Baker Horse was 

 not a big one by any means, weighing about 1,500 

 pounds. He was of the diligence type and a re- 

 markably fertile and impressive sire. In 1864 he 

 was purchased by Abram Curl of Woodstock, 0., and 

 he stood there until 1867. Of the Baker Horse H. 

 Dorr Martin writes: 



"He was a finely shaped horse and left some of 



