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a race, beating Crazy Jane and Snowball. Time, 2.44, 

 2.36, 2.33, 2.35. Crazy Jane winning the third heat. Oct. 

 15, following, at the same place, she beat Crazy Jane and 

 Fire King, in 2.33, 2.37, 2.40. 



While Fanny PuUen was owned in Anson, Mr. Pullen 

 raised three colts from her. The first resembled his dam 

 in color and general appearance. After having several 

 different owners, Mr. Swan trained him awhile and took 

 him to Mass., and sold him about the time he did his dam. 

 Her second colt was a sorrel, with a white stripe in the 

 face. He too was sold young, and taken out of the State, 

 Her third colt was a gray mare, and like the others was 

 sold young, and taken away, and all trace of her lost. 



By the untimely death of John Swan, the only man, 

 probably, who could give their whole history, all trace of 

 them is lost beyond recovery. The gray mare, " Celeste," 

 and chestnut gelding, " Henry," with many others, 

 passed through his hands, and some of them were, doubt- 

 less, descendants of Fanny Pullen. 



ZAC TATLOE, 



Sometimes called " Gen. Taylor," was a sorrel gelding, 

 15i hands high, foaled in 1841, bred by Dr. SafEord, 

 of West Gardiner, Me., got by Quimby Messenger, dam, 

 a mare used on the stage from Augusta to Bangor, and 

 said to be well bred. Benjamin Hodges, of Hallowell, 

 bought him in the winter of 1846, and sold a one-half in- 

 terest to Capt. Sager, who then kept the Hallowell House, 

 and they sold him, the following March, to Oliver Wal- 

 ton, of Boston. He was afterwards owned by C. P. Eelf , 

 of Philadelphia. Mr. Woodruff says "he was a very 

 famous trotter and sticker." He trotted successfully 

 against Lady Suffolk and Tacony. Nov. 8, 1848, he won 



