The New York herald., 1921-07-31

west Of the Nisseaquogue. Mr.. Law
renee called him q rather coarse horse.
He was not we'll patronized in the stud
and so Mr.. Lewis sold him or sent him
across the Sound into Connecticut aud
he finally drifted into Maine Then DR..
Bowers. driving about the country in his
practice. and seeing the good colts En-
gineer had left behind. went across the
Sound In search OF him. and after tracing
him from one place to another finally
found him and bought him for a trifie
and brought him back to Smithtown.
This was in 1882. the year Jenny was
bred to him.
some Doubtful GenealoEy.
DR.. Bowers's Engineer was got by a
gray horse of the same name that
Long Tom Jackson of Jericho, owned
or controlled. Long after he was dead
and gone he was called a. son of i'm
ported Messenger, and Is so registered
In Wallace's American Trotting Reg
lister, but no man on Long Island ever
professed to know who bred him, and
his owner in 1916 advertised him in
the Long Island Star without any at
tempt to give his pedigree. 1t was first
said that he had been stolen. then that
he had been ridden by a British officer
American lines when his rider was
killed in battle. The story that Wal
lace accepted was that the horse was
about to be attached by the creditors
OF his owner in Pennsylvania when the
latter ran him off and sold him or hired
him out to Jackson or to Sam Whftson
and John Tappen. Engineer seems to
have disappeared as mysteriously as
he came. and nothing Is really known
about his origin or his breeding.
Leonard w. Lawrence never pro-
fessed to know anything about the
breeding Of Lady Suffolk's dam. In
1899 an anonymous correspondent of
the Spirit of the Times wrote to that
paper that she was bred by Gen. Floyd
and got by Don Quixote. son of Mes
senger. her dam being a daughter OF
Rainbow. This correspondent, whoever
he may have been. gave the name of
the breeder Of Lady Suffolk Incorrectly,
and thus proved that he did not know
what he was talking about, yet his
statements were all of them long ac-
cepted, even by Wallace. who first reg
istered Lady Suffolk as having been
bred by Mr.. Blydenburgh.
Left Girl to Buy Horse.
Tradition In Smithtown has II that
David Bryan was counting his future
wife. then Miss Caroline Smith, one Sun.
day night when he heard the rhythmic
hoofbeats of Mr.. Blydenburghs filly on
the road in the darkness and left the
dy to follow up the square gated trot-
ter and buy her. Mr.. Lawrence saws
Ben Newton always maintained that he
was present and saw the deal closed for
S112.b0-there was always an odd fifty
cents taoked on to the pr1ce each time
the gray mare changed hands to sug-
gest that the traders must have split the
difference when they were s5 or SIS or
s25 apart. This historic horse trade
took place almost in front of the present
schoolhouse In Smithtown Branch, ac-
cording to Newton. who also averred that
the first public appearance of the young
mare was on a training day, when he
borrowed her and rode her and matched
her to outwalk, outtrot and outrun any
nag on the field. and won his wager,
A correspondent Of the Spirit Of Che
Times In 1855 credited William T. Por-
ter. the editor of that paper, with having
discovered the promise of Lady Suffolk
In driving behind her from Smithtown
to Comac after a days trout fishing in
Blydenburghs celebrated Stump Pond. in
the fall Of 1887. Be this as 1t may. David
Bryan drove her across the island to
Babylon in February. 1888, and started
her for purse Of $11, which sbo won in
8 :01.
On the advice of Mr.. Porter and James
Oakes, the latter lifelong FRIEND OF
Edwin Forrest, the mare was entered In
race at the Beacon course, on Vice.
hawken Heights, in June Of that year,