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and I have no doubt but the honorable fairness of the man, 

 and the persistence of the Morgan trotters, will, in time, 

 give them their true position in the mind and records of 

 not only Mr. Wallace, but ot all other truly honorable gen- 

 tlemen.* I will, at least, promise any one that will take 

 the trouble to investigate all these facts of records and ped- 

 igrees impartially, that their admiration of the Morgan as a 

 getter of trotters will be measurably increased, and the 

 conclusion will be reached, that if the Morgan blood does 

 not confer the trotting instinct and power, it at least fur- 

 nishes the key that unlocks it when it lies dormant in some 

 other strain, and confers many other excellent qualities that 

 are very valuable, not only in trotters, but in horses for a 

 variety of uses. One tact that will stand out very promi- 

 nent in these investigations will be the large number of 

 sires of Morgan descent that have got 2:30 horses. I have 

 been able to trace, with a very tolerable certainty, over sev- 

 enty, and, from the difficulty in getting at the facts in 

 regard to many of tliose whose pedigrees I have cleared up, 

 I am convinced that there are many more among tlie 



* Since the above was written, Mr. Wallace has commenced the 

 publication of a very excellent magazine called Wallace's Monthly, 

 and, in the very first number, October, 1875, in a very fair article 

 npou the trotting meeting at Cleveland, in 1875, I find the following: 

 "And from Justin Morgan, foaled in Massachusetts, in 1798, and his 

 descendants, there has slowly evolved a race of trotters, that have 

 gradually improved, every year, in courage and speed, till now they 

 are the dangerous rivals of ffl/Z the best performers on tie turi." I 

 particularly invite all to read the article, as one that sustains the 

 argumen's I have made in this paper to prove that Morgans are trot- 

 ters, and that medium sized horses are fastest and most durable. 



