Effects of Two Generations 



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An experiment pure and simple, and one with 

 no precedent. 



After Santa Claus had been campaigned 

 on the track for several years he was bred to 

 Sweetness, 2 :2i}4, a daughter of a horse 

 which had been banged about the country 

 for many years before it was discovered that 

 he was good for anything as a sire. The 

 product was a colt called Sidney. The 

 owner of Sweetness and Sidney had freak 

 notions about driving youngsters and had no 

 considerations for the feelings of his horses. 

 Tender mercy was not a part of his constitu- 

 tion. "The methods pursued in develop- 

 ing this promising trotter were so drastic 

 that instead of maturing into a trotter of 

 merit, he adopted the pacing gait, shifting 

 to that way of going of his own volition. In 

 his yearling form Sidney trotted a quarter of 

 a mile in thirty-seven seconds." 



Sidney is the founder of an important 

 family of trotters noted for early speed. 



About 1863 or 1864 a filly, afterwards 

 known as Green Mountain Maid, was put 



