Identifier: americantrottert01parl (find matches)
Title: The American trotter; a treatise on his origin, history and development
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Parlin, Simon W., 1837-
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Boston, American Horse Breeder Publishing Co., 1905
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
a letter to Mr. Wallace. The letter was pub-lished in Wallaces Monthly, but not till after it hadbeen decided upon the strength of Mr. Pearces state-ments that the sire of Nancy Pope, dam of Pilot, Jr.,was a large bay cart horse. A part of Mr. Andersonsletter was as follows: As far as I am concerned, the reminiscences of my friends,Speed, Pearce and Gray, as well as your pet theory ofbreeding, must alike go down before my confidence in thesimple honesty of Major Funk in these transactions. This ismy main motive to this reply; to respond to a call from myespecial friend, Andrew Steele, and to correct the misunder-standings of my former and forgotten statements, are mylesser purposes, t know very little of this controversy. Asit seems to me, it is only the accidental status of your presentdiscussion which gives the least significance or interest tomy knowledge. Our neighbor, Major Funk, one and one-half miles off, in orabout the year 1822, became infected with a violent passion. If 216
Text Appearing After Image:
TROTTING FAMILIES FROM PACERS. not mania, lor racing and for breeding race horses. He wasalone in his taste or enterprise, of all the citizens of JeffersonCounty of that time. He bought some stock, laid out a racetrack, built stables, etc., and gathered such a crowd of stal-lions, mares, keepers, trainers, riders and other attendantpersons and things, that his new enterprise became, withdifferent minds of the neighborhood, a cause of surprise, re-gret and derision. I do not know or believe that any otherman in the coimty had a thoroughbred of either sex. I amsure Mr. Funk then had (as far as he knew) no other sort forbreeding. These appear fo me to be important items in thisquestion as it stands. Amongst these stallions in training, or standing, there wereStockholder, Archer (also by Sir Archy), Sea Serpent, byShylock (I believe), Conqueror, Whip Tiger, with other lessdistinguished juveniles, and at a somewhat later date per-haps. Havoc, the horse in dispute. I could, if I were not to

Note About Images