Those Booth Horses Again -

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(04-07-2014 03:32 PM)Rick Smith Wrote:  Unless you count the mare coming down in the road {and she did, regardless of where Booth's leg was broken, since she was muddy on her near side and had a cut on her near side shoulder by the time she arrived at Mudd's}, I do not think Booth {or Herold after they switched mounts} had any trouble with her. Once on her back and in the saddle, she would not be able to see if the rider had a hat on. The way Jones describes seeing the mare for the first time, she appears to be rather calm & docile.

Rick--

Can you give me your insight into Booth's horse being muddy on her near side and the cut on her near shoulder?

The only evidence I've seen on the condition of the horse is from Mudd's farmand, Thomas Davis.

This is his description of the horses in his statement in "The Evidence" He makes no other comment on the condition of the horses otherwise in this particular statement. (emphasis mine)

"One of the horses was a small bay mare in excellent trim, with a piece of skin off on the inside of the left foreleg about as big as a silver quarter. I do not know whether there was a soar {sic] on her head or not. The other was a roan horse, the pretty racker with a large scar just back of the saddle."

Are there other statements from Davis or anyone else about the condition of the horses on the escape?