Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-15
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there be no mistake here, the question Is
settled without appeal. But is there no
mistake? | repeat that l am sure that
Mr. Pope had gray FLY out of Nancy
TAYLOR, in 1928, which he presented to
my brother Larry, and that he sent her
for while to pasture at Soldiers Re-
treat, where was living (the only SOM
with my mother. And furthermore l
cannot recollect any other gray FLY out
of Nancy Taylor or any other dam on
that place until it was rented out to
Judge McInly of Alabama and Mr. Pope
moved to Louisville. Does any one re-
member second? What does Robert
Pope (the only remaining son of Mr.
Pope. and of 1914, too) remember of
there being two gray fillies? Or MIR.
Speed. Pearce or Gray (who, by the by,
was as often on the farm as E. P,)? My
non-recollection is, of course, not con-
elusive. But / submit is it not of ma
ture as weighty as Mr.. Pearce's recollec-
' ton of the date QS31) when neighbor
sent mare to common stallion, an
event which did not contain the slightest
import or interest for almost a quarter OF
a century. The case of Atty .-Gen.
Speed is an example of the native unreli-
ability of such testimony. He recollec-
' ted the year 1925 as the time when MIR.
Pope presented Nancy Taylor to his
t. tn hppn
| 1888. or nine years later q have rea-
sons to doubt whether it was not still
wear later, 1880. Now this affair of the
ownership of Pet Mare, by Judge Speed,
must have been one of far more interest
| to one of his sons than that of time
when a neighbor sent mare to COM
mou farm horse could possibly be to the
other And yet the Encouragement of
the United States (and let me add one of
the ablest lawyers and best men in the
State) forgot the date of that transaction
by gap of nine or ten yaars. l insist
then not only that it is no impeachment
of Mr. Pearce, not the least to express a
doubt of his date, but that his recollec-
ton (if there were no counter-memories)
is per Sc, of very light historic weight.
$50 the testimony stands, then Count
ing in it, of course. my own recollection)
| must believe that after 1928 Nancy lay
lor had no gray filly, that before 1928 Ga
date | can hardly forgot she did have a
gray filly; that this FLY might certainly
have been begotten by horse standing
some four miles off, between 1924 and
1S2S that Major Funk, then and there,
kept a stallion, Havoc by name, a 'chest-
nut in color, and claimed and reported
to be by Sir Charles, Sir Alfred, and
that Mr.. Funk neither had nor stood any
Urge bay or other farm horse until long
hitter these dates, when, abandoning his
thoroughbred mania, he did buy and
stand such horse, named, | think, Pen
nsylvana Farmer.
''All this, sir, may not prove that Pilot
Jr.'s grandsire was Sir Charles. Indeed,
It does not prove it, but it surely dimin-
shes the probabilities of the contrary
upposition to very attenuated guam
Fity And, if the question must be re-
luced to a single point, between that
Dedigree on the one hand and the alega-
ions of Nancy Pope's sire being large
bay horse or common farm horse
called Havoc or any other sort of
horse than that claimed by Peter Funk,
Upon the other hand, then, indeed, in my
Judgment, it is certainty that the for
ner pedigree is established.
81 have expressed my doubts as to this
laim, that Pilot Jr.'s was the thorough
pred or strictly thoroughbred | GER
ainly never heard any such claim for
his Taylor family The first in Mr..
'ope's possession were John and Nancy
'aylor. think Mr.. Pope told me he
rot them from Bullitt County, near
Fhepherdsville (not a very likely region
hen for thoroughbreds) | believe,
borrower. that he told me that John r.,
,ho was one of the finest saddle horses
live. had run awhile as stallion, and it
nay be he was the sire of Nancy r., or
ice versa. They were very superior
nd hne looking ANIMALS. JOnn, especl-
lily, had a very satiny coat of hair (bay).
hey may have been thoroughbreds.
tut if they were, Mr.. Pope did not know
nor would have esteemed them one
ollar more on that account. He adj
lired and loved, was proud of them, on
leir own accounts. Altogether, | have
o idea that they were thoroughbreds;
o more do | doubt that Nancy Pope
,as by the genuine Havoc.
II should be ashamed from my stand
ONT TO write this long letter, the second
one week, too, about matter which |
eem so unimportant in itself, and, at
ny rate, possessing, at this time, so little
lterest to myself at least, if | did not
al tl,nt tIn had