140 State Board of Agkicui.turk, &c. 



From these facts, and a few others which we shall name^ 

 we think we shall be justified in claiming that the Morgan 

 blood, instead of lessening the (chances for speed, decidedly 

 increases them. The records of tlie season of 1874 confirm 

 this view. One Vermont stallion, of Morgan descent, has 

 four colts that scored better than ti-.PA) tliat season, and these 

 do not include at least one that had made such a record 

 before. A son of his has at least one that beat that time 

 during tliat season. Camors, a son of Cieneral Knox, after 

 making a l)etter record than 2:20, was sold for $20,0(((» and 

 taken to California, but, unfortunately, died there, before 

 he had time to gain additional laurels for himself or family ; 

 but his lialf sister, Lady Maud, is more than making his 

 place good. Her performance at Kochester, last August, 

 Avherc she beat Judge Fullerton, in three straight heats, in 

 2:18^, 2:19^, 2:18f, drew from the Spirit of the Ti?nei^ the 

 following compliment : " Her three heats, below 2:20, the 

 first time the feat has been accomplished this season, except- 

 ing by the Maid, at Cleveland, stamps this daugliter of Gen- 

 eral Knox as one of the greatest of living trotters." 



Lucille Golddust has also trotted better than 2:20. The 

 full list of the 2:o0 horses of 1875 is not yet fully com- 

 pleted nor classified, but when it is, I think no friend of the 

 Morgans will be ashamed of the number there recorded that 

 have descended through Morgan sires. The number ot 

 Morgans in the list of 2:30 horses for the season of 1874 

 was a surprise to me, as it was to many Yermonters, and 

 certainly to many others. The friends of the Hambletoni- 

 ans claim that twenty-six of their favorites trotted in 2:l>0 or 

 better, in 1874. These twenty-six were sired by eight dif- 



