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management and direction Hambletonian now 

 is, that for the coming season of eighteen hundred 

 and seventy two over one hundred applications have 

 been received, from which number, however, but 

 thirty will be accepted. Upon a recent visit to 

 Chester, the old horse was shown to us by his very 

 gentlemanly manager. Although exhibiting many of 

 the indications of old age, as a matter of course, yet 

 his eye appeared bright and undirnmed by years, while 

 his coat was glossy ; and those peculiar points which 

 long since have led him to be pronounced the " King 

 of Horses," still stand out in bold relief While 

 standing in his majestic presence, and remembering 



the fact that he was the iBire of twelve hundred and 



\ 

 fifty standing colts, that they or their progeny were 



represented in almost every state and county through- 

 out the United States, and in almost every country in 

 the civilized world, and that upon their successful 

 contests upon the turf, fortunes had been won again 

 and again, we could not but respect and venerate him. 

 Although, in the natural course of events, the days of 



