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so mucli worse than other men's sons, I shall say, my tk'st 

 reason is that it is not so. 



I have, for some years past, been convinced that we were 

 Leing deceivec" as to tlie average value and prices obtained 

 for the large mass of the horses raised fi'om the large trot- 

 ting families, by tlie extraordinary prices obtained for a 

 very few fast ones, and have, from time to time, contended 

 that Morgans would bring Ijetter average prices, and pay 

 better for the farmers to raise. Last July, in the Middle- 

 hury Register, we published an account of a number of 

 sales of Mambrino thorough-breds, Hambletonians, etc., 

 and contrasted them with two where the 1 »lood was Morgan, 

 or where the colts sold were sired by stallions descended 

 through Moi'gan sires from Justin Morgan. The accounts 

 of these sales were taken from two or three numbers of the 

 !New York Spirit of the Times, published immediately pre- 

 ceding the date of our article named. These sales were all 

 extensively advertised, in previous numljers of the same 

 j^aper, giving notice of their blood, breeding, itc. These 

 sales were five in number, and were : lirst, one of Mam- 

 brinos, by Mr. Owen Fuller, of Terre Haute, Indiana ; sec- 

 ond, one by Messrs. Belmont & Lorrillard, of New York, 

 two of the most celebrated breeders of thorouii'h-breds ; 

 third, one by Mr. Edwin Thorn, of Ducliess County, Xe^\■ 

 York, one of the most celebrated breeders of Haml)letonian 

 stock, and whose advertisement stated that the stock offered 

 was the get of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, Alexander's Abdal- 

 lah, Manhattan, Volunteer, Sentinel, Thorndale, ifec. From 

 such sires we should expect the very ])est of Hambletoni- 

 ans, and those, that would sell at the very liighest ligures 



