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was sent for to take a mile and repeat. He could not go, 
so he sent James B. Bach and Mr. Salters to time him. 
The first mile was trotted in 2.253 and repeated with per- 
_ fect ease in 2.24.. He then went to Buffalo, where the As- 
sociation gave him the best stall on the track, a new one. 
He slipped on the fresh planking, wrenching one of his 
forward legs, and was unable to start in the race. In ten 
days he was well again, and received some further train- 
ing. . 
In 1872 he stood in Westchester County, New York, and 
it was not until 1873 that he went to Fashion Farm, where - 
he has ever since stood for service. . 
The pedigree of Gen. Knox has undergone several re- 
visions, until, at present, it stands in Wadllace’s American 
Trotting Register, Vol. 3, as follows: 
Gen. Knox, blk h foaled 1855; got by Vermont Hero,then 
«known as the ‘‘Rockwood Colt,” son of Sherman Black 
Hawk; dam by Searcher, son of Barney Henry; gd 
the Hunsden Mare, by Hill’s Sir Charles, son of Duroc, 
.and out of a mare by Plato. Bred by Daniel Heustis, 
Bridport, Vt.; sold with his dam, 1855, to Oliver 
Eldridge, and bv him the colt alone was sold to D. A. 
Bennett, all of the same place; at three years old Ben- 
net sold him to Denny & Bush, representing him to be 
by Sherman Black Hawk, and the same year he was 
purchased by Col. T.S. Lang, and taken to Maine, 
where he stood at the head of all New England stal- 
_lions till 1872, when he was purchased at ten thousand 
dollars by his present owner, Henry N. Smith, Fashion 
Stud Farm, Trenton, N. J. 
This result is reached after a thorough investigation of 
the subject, and we regard it as conclusive, as, aside from 
Mr. Wallace himself, the pedigrees in the 3rd Volume 
were subject to the approval of a board of censors, com- 
prised of several of the most intelligent breeders of the 
country. 
Mr. Helm,in his work entitled American Roadsters and 
Trotting Horses. says of Gen. Knox, ‘He spent nearly 
all of his days prior to 1872 in the State of Maine. A 
