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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 2 m. and 56 s., 

 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 moderate 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, aa 

 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 keeping himself obscured iu 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 laurels belonging 

 to others ; the horse kind, before his claims to celebrity 



md fame are considered, must produce the double* 

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