30 THE ORANGE COUNTY 



eight years of the time his father, Hiram Smith, being a 

 partner. AMERICAN STAR passed through many hands, was 

 generally neglected and ill- treated; trotted in his day many 

 races, principally on the road or ice, consequently left no very 

 fast record. No horse ever lived that more certainly stamped 

 upon his offspring his own characteristics of gait, disposition, 

 and bottom, than did American Star. Of his get, you wih 1 find 

 a large percentage mares; and many of them may be found 

 on the breeding farms of Orange County, highly appreciated 

 by their owners; and well may be, for they are the mothers 

 of the fastest trotters in the world. 



Of his horse colts but a few were kept as stallions. The 

 Randall colt, as he was called, and we have before spoken of, 

 was foaled in eighteen hundred and fifty-one, is a trotter, 

 and a getter of trotters. Magnolia, Sir Henry, and Monitor, 

 all good stallions by Star, have been taken out of the county. 



NOTE TO THE READER. 



The preceding matter, it will be borne in mind, was 

 written in 1871. 



