Grant & Bonner -- Dexter's Best Time 2.16 1/4
This illustration from 1868 was published by Joseph Hoover of J. Hoover & Son and shows President Ulysses S. Grant and Robert Bonner riding in a horse-drawn carriage in New York. Bonner was a horse owner and publisher of the "New York Ledger." Dexter, the horse in the illustration, was one of his best known horses. Grant reportedly became enamored with Dexter and asked Bonner to give it to him as a gift after this ride happened. Bonner refused because he had great affection for the horse.