CHAPTER V 



THE 2 : 10 TROTTERS 



High Speed at the Trot an Artificial Gait— The Factors of 

 Work — Percentage of Record-Horses when the 2 : 10 

 Trotters were Born Compared with Record-Sires 

 of 2 : 10 Trotters — Ages of Non-Record Sires by Sex 

 Relationship — Birth of 2 : 10 Stallions Compared 

 with Time when their Sires were Raced — Non- 

 Record Sires Examined — Sires of Mares and Geldings 

 — Unknown Dams — Dams with and without Records 

 — Special Cases — Geldings — Ages of Record and 

 Non-Record Horses in Earlier Generations — The 

 Significance of Tables. 



TURNING from general principles to 

 facts, and taking horse pedigrees for 

 the purpose of testing the theoretical con- 

 siderations previously set forth, the first thing 

 is to select animals with great stores of 

 energy and examine their pedigrees to see if 

 we can learn how they became possessed 

 with their great accumulations. In doing this 

 we select 2 : 10 trotters, remembering, how- 

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