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Snell, Sam Purdy, Hopeful, &;c., all rich in the blood of 

 imported Trustee and American Eclipse. Then George 

 Palmer, Bodene, St. Julien, Prospero, American Girl, and 

 Gazelle, are all strong in the blood of Grand Bashaw. White, 

 Goldsmith IMaid, Jay Gould, Mr. Wilkes, Frank Wood, Bella, 

 Hotspur, John W. Conly, Rarus, Rosalind, Amy, Huntress, 

 contain each a strong effusion of the blood of Abdallah. 

 Then Mambrino Gift, Lady Thorn, and Lady Turpin, are 

 each strong in the blood of Mambrino ; while Mountain Boy, 

 Commodore, Judge Fullerton, and Everett Ray are each 

 highly endowed in the blood of imported Margrave. Smug- 

 gler and Grafton contain each strong effusions of the blood 

 of American Eclipse ; while Dexter, Nellie, &c., rejoice in the 

 blood of Sir Henry, Lady Maud, Carrier, &c. Many others 

 go back in a straight line to imported jMessenger, Lunelo, 

 Gold-dust, and Fleety; Gold-dust to imj)orted Barefoot; 

 Thomas Jefferson, to Wagner's imported Glencoe ; Great 

 Eastern to imported Consternation ; Gloster, to Duroc ; Co- 

 mee, to imported Balrownie ; Lula, to imported Horton : &;c. 

 I know that it is fashionable with most people to have six- 

 teen-hand horses, and that the present treatment and manage- 

 ment of breeding animals tends to this end; but I believe it 

 is done at a great sacrifice of good horses made worthless ; 

 and, in getting the size, we lose the essential qualities that 

 make up an animal for the road and track. I shall venture 

 to predict that the time is not very remote, when a fifteen- 

 hand horse, weighing a thousand pounds, and having the 

 courage, speed, and strength to make his mile or his hundred 

 miles equal to the best, will be the favorite. 



Giles K. Tinker, Chairman. 



MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 

 [From the Report of the Committee.] 



Of all the animals that man has domesticated and attached 

 to himself for use or pleasure, the horse takes the lead. His 

 noble bearing, beauty, strength, and sagacity have rendered 

 him a general favorite with all nations, from the remotest 

 ages. It would be interesting to know exactly what inllu- 

 ence the domestication of the horse has had on the civiliza- 



