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to the champion full-aged trotter, and aunt 

 of the champion one-year-old trotter. It 

 would require too much space to go into the 

 full details of this case, but it may be said 

 that it does not present much difficulty. 



The case which has caused me more trouble 

 and uncertainty than any other is that of the 

 2 : 10 mare Alix, out of a five-year-old dam 

 without a record. If it is possible for energy 

 to get into an animal in any other manner 

 than that set forth in the theoretical discus- 

 sion, this is the best case I know of to prove 

 that fact. Energy can be traced to her from 

 sire and grandsire trained in their colthood, 

 but the trouble with the case is that there are 

 several comparatively young dams without re- 

 cords close up and no information as to what 

 happened to those dams. The factor time 

 in this case is small without information as 

 to what the other factor may be. Repeated 

 inquiries as to the dam of Alix have yielded 

 only the information that she was nervous and 

 extremely "high-strung." Alix was slender 

 and somewhat frail. She had a " f rictionless 



