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he by Old Potter horse, he by a horse brought from 

 the Provinces, said to be of English blood, and out of a 

 mare by Winthrop Messenger. The pedigree of the dam 

 of Belle of Brooklyn is unknown, although she has pro- 

 duced several very speedy colts. Stone sold her to Jason 

 Trask, of "Wilton, he to Mr. Ladd, of Livermore Palls. 

 Ladd swapped her with Leander Killbreth, of Hartford, 

 and he sold her to Samuel Reedtds, of Buckfleld. 

 Records sold her to G. M. Delaney, and Oct. 16, 1868, as 

 Kate, at Narragansett Park, R. I., she won a race and a 

 record of 2.31i, beating Climax. She was afterwards- 

 sold to P. ^PNodine, of Brooklyn, N". T., and called 

 " Belle of Brooklyn." June 4, 1869, at the Union 

 Course, L. I., in a race for horses that never beat 2.31, 

 she won the first and second heats in 2.31f , 2.82J. She 

 was finally put to breeding, and in 1872 she foaled black 

 mare, Henrietta, by Nodine's Peacemaker. 



PELHAM. 



Bay gelding, under 15 hands high, foaled about 1837, 

 formerly owned by Mr. B. Esmond, of Gardiner, Me., 

 who purchased him about twenty-eight years ago, of 

 Arnold "Wentworth, who then lived on Sabattus Moun- 

 tain. PeUiam was then about seven years old, and a fast 

 pacer. Nothing is known of his pedigree or early his- 

 tory. Esmond sold him to Oliver "Walton, of Boston. 



Walton soid him to Dennis McReady, of New York, 

 and he was taken from Boston to New York in 1846. He 

 was afterwards owned by Jacob Sommerindyke, and 

 called Charlie Abel. 



He was square-gaited as a trotter, after he changed his 

 way of going, and very fast, and he was the first horse to 



