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He had a fine full eye, was low over the withers, with 

 an oblique shoulder, and fine back and muscles. 



FANNY PULLEN. 



Sorrel mare, 15^ hands high, and weighed 1,000 

 pounds, foaled about 1825, bred by Sullivan P'uUen, of 

 Anson, Me., got by Winthrop Messenger, dam, a bay 

 mare, pedigree unknown. Mr. PuUen sold her, when 

 ' seven or eight years old, to H. Stone, who then kept the 

 Somerset Hotel at Anson. He sold her, shortly after- 

 wards, to John Swan, of Anson, who trained her a few 

 months and took her to Boston, in 1832 or '33, and sold 

 her to a Mr. Lull, for $300. She remained in Boston 

 one season, and trotted a number of races on the Ded- 

 ham turnpike against a pacer and a trotting mare called 

 Blinker. She was then taken to New York. " In 1835," 

 — see the Horse of America by Frank Forrester, vol. ii., 

 page 158, — " the sport of trotting became more and 

 more popular, and there was a scarce a gentleman in New 

 York who did not own and drive one or two fast horses. 

 Among the patrons of this noble sport, then in its infan- 

 cy, I can name now Mr. Coster, with Fanny Pullen, the 

 mother of the incomparable Trustee." In 1836 Harry 

 Jones had Fanny Pullen, and she was entered in a 

 sweepstakes race, two-mile heats in harness, over the 

 Centreville Course, against Dutchman and Confidence, 

 for $1000. The betting ran very high on the race. 

 Dutchman won it in two heats, and Fanny, second; time 

 6.17| — 5.18J. The first heat was the fastest two miles 

 that had been made in harness. 



This closed her public performances. She was subse- 

 quently purchased by Mr. James Bridges, and bred to 

 Imported Trustee. 



