THE IMPORTING EECOBD TO 1870 149 



the latter by Gen. Fleury 846, their pedigrees other- 

 wise being the same — dam Jennie by Prince Imperial 

 388 (Old Charley), grandam by Normandy 351 

 (Pleasant Valley Bill), third dam by Nonesuch 345 

 (Old Bob), fourth dam by Louis Napoleon 281. 



White Prince 496 was the first imported horse ever 

 taken west of the Rocky Mountains, and it will be 

 observed that even as early as 1878 we had Ameri- 

 can-bred horses of high breeding graded up from 

 the native stock. White Prince was a fine individual 

 and an extraordinarily successful sire, never a big 

 one, weighing around 1,600 pounds, and remembered 

 as a typical specimen of the true diligence breed in 

 its highest estate. His get followed his own pattern 

 closely as to both type and color. Indeed he was 

 regarded as exactly the horse that should have 'been 

 chosen to make a start in a region where the im- 

 provement of the native stock had not previously 

 been attempted. Unfortunately he was poisoned in 

 1878, foul play in that manner removing perhaps 

 the most impressive getter ever used on the common 

 run of mares in the early days in that country. 



Good Buying for Illinois. — FuUington, Thompson 

 & Co., Irwin Station, and the Marion company still 

 held the fort in Ohio, each firm importing three 

 stallions in 1870. All the other importers of that 

 year, with the exception of Mr. Parrott, already 

 mentioned as hailing from Kansas, were residents 

 of Illinois. They were: Hume & Short, Brighton; 

 Russ, McCourtey & Slattery, Onarga; Westfall, 

 Moore & Rexroat, Macomb; A. G. Van Hoorebeke, 



