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dam. He took the first premium, awarded to colts of his 

 class, for trotting, in Orange County, at the successive ages 

 of three, four, and five years: he also took the first premium 

 at the Agricultural Fail', when competing with some half- 

 dozen of the first of Hambletonian's colts, as being the best 

 stallion in Orange County. Mr. Sayer has bred his horse to 

 a fine Harry Clay mare of his with remarkable success. He 

 sold her first colt, "Torn Sayers," a three-year old, in the fall 

 of eighteen hundred and seventy, to Budd Doble, for two 

 thousand five hundred dollars, at the time of his winning the 

 three-year-old stake at Middletown, in 2m. and 56s., being 

 the same time made by his sire at the same age. A like sum 

 has been offered for her second colt, and refused. This horse 

 has served mares only at his owner's stable, and at the mod- 

 erate price of fifty dollars to insure. He served, during the 

 season of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, one hundred 

 and fourteen mares, proving himself a sure foal getter, as 

 well as a source of great profit to his owner. 



More fortunately in the horse than in human kind, a noble 

 sire more certainly transmits his estimable qualities to 

 his posterity; and while the human kind may bask in the 

 sunshine of ancestral glory, enjoy a secondary fame by keep- 

 ing himself obscured in the paternal shadow, or claim for 

 himself the undeserved merits of a family name, and with 

 diplomatic skill and through artful devices bear off the lau- 

 rels belonging to others, the horse kind, before his claims to 

 celebrity and fame are considered, must produce the double 

 assurance of, first, his family record, and secondly, his ability 

 to perform or surpass what his ancestors have done before 

 him. Without ascribing to ourselves the power to unveil the 

 future, even to the extent of one day's fair or foul weather, 

 yet, with a knowledge of facts before us concerning this 

 same Guy Miller, his noble and enduring qualities and many 

 pouits of excellence, we predict for him, as a getter of trot- 

 ters, a position second to none among horses, in this 

 country. 



