BLACKWOOD br. H, SADDLEBRED, 1834
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(CAN), Coeur de Lion
Wallace's ATR, 1874, Vol.2, p.129: nothing is really known of the blood of this horse. He was probably got by a horse called COEUR DE LION, that tradition say was brought into Canada East from the South of France. In a letter now before me from Mr. Robert Blackwood, he says - he bought the horse in 1837, then three years old, from a Frenchman below Montreal. M. Blackwodd sold him in 1841 to Henry Graves, now of London, Ontario, and he sold him 1846 or 1847 to Mr. Cook, of Buffalo, N. Y.; This was en excellent horse, 16 hands high, of good form, a fine open gait, and went with great courage; he was the sire of the dam of TORONTO CHIEF, and his blood is highly prized in his descendants. No trace of him after he came to the States has been preserved.
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