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race track and secured records, and some- 

 what over one hundred and forty sons which 

 did not. Before Hambletonian was ten years 

 old, his grandsons and granddaughters were 

 much in evidence. Thirty years after Ham- 

 bletonian was born, five of those ten horses 

 which went to the track had no registered 

 male offspring, if they had any offspring at 

 all. The other five with records had a total 

 of 28 sons registered, 12 of which were sons 

 of George Wilkes, then 23 years of age. 

 Part of the sons without records were at the 

 same time represented by 747 registered male 

 offspring. Thirteen of Hambletonian' s sons 

 without race records had 273, or an average 

 of 21 each. These thirteen sons were un- 

 doubtedly, at that time, considered the most 

 valuable of Hambletonian's offspring. Con- 

 temporary publications so represented them. 

 By the irony of fate, these thirteen valuable 

 stallions and all of their descendants are 

 practically extinct as far as the best trotting 

 pedigrees are concerned. 



Large numbers of trotters are produced by 



