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and sixty-six, at five hundred dollars, one hundred of 

 which was required to be paid down, he served one 

 hundred and five mares, and got seventy-five colts. In 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, he served seventy- 

 seven mares and got forty-one colts. 



As might reasonably have been expected, from the 

 polygamous course of life to which the old horse had 

 for years been subjected, his physical powers became 

 weakened, and during the year eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-eight he was retired from the stud, and covered 

 no mares. Notwithstanding, however, the prognosti- 

 cations of many that he was " played out," a season's 

 rest had a highly beneficial effect upon him, and dur- 

 ing the following season he served twenty-one mares 

 and got fourteen colts. In eighteen hundred and 

 seventy he served twenty-two mares and got thirteen 

 -colts. In eighteen hundred and seventy-one he was 

 limited to thirty mares, which he served, and from 

 'which he got twenty colts, having left some seventy 

 applicants unserved in consequence of this limitation. 

 We have been informed by Mr. Geo. Andrews, under 



