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a son of Almont, whose dam was Emma Kiukead, by Conscript, 

 brother to American Clay ; second dam Effie Dean, by Mambnuy 

 Chief. Flying Jib's dam is the Middletown Mare, by Middletown, 

 son of Hambletonian, and the Middletown Mare was out of Emblem, 

 the reputed granddam of Arion, 2.10J, and full sister to Voltaire, 

 2.20}. It will thus be noted that Flying Jib is a stoutly trotting-bred 

 pacer. He came into George Starr's hands a green horse in the spring 

 of 1892, and that great reiusman has won almost everything he tried 

 for with him. He has proven the best pacing race-horse of 1892, and 

 is by many believed capable of beating the record of Mascot. 



The two sensational pacers of 1891, Hal Pointer and Direct, have 

 not been at their best in 1892, though each has lowered his record, the 

 former to 2.04} and the latter to 2.05-2. 



Hal Pointer is a bay gelding, bred in Tennessee, and swept every- 

 thiuor before him in 1891 until he met Direct in the autumn, when the 

 little black stallion from California easily defeated him. Again, in 

 the early months of 1892, Hal Pointer was invincible, but later, Fly- 

 ing Jib was clearly his master. Direct is a product of California, 

 being bred there, a son of Director, 2.17, w^hose sire, Dictator (brother 

 to Dexter, 2.174), is also the sire of Nancy Hanks' dam. Direct is 

 owned by Monro Sali.sbur}^ of California, and his sire. Director, by 

 A. H. Moore, of Philadelphia. Hal Pointer is owned by C. J. Ham- 

 lin, of Buffalo, N. Y. 



A sketch of the pacing wonders of 1892 would be incomplete with- 

 out reference to the rejuvenated j^henomenon. Jay Eye See, one time 

 king of the trotting turf. Jay Eye See was a sensation of the trotting 

 turf ten years ago. On August 1st, 1884, at Providence, R. I., he 

 lowered the world's trotting record to 2.10. The next day Maud S. 

 trotted at Cleveland in 2.09J, so that Jay Eye See was king for a day 

 only. After a long retirement the little black horse reappeared on 

 the turf, a giant refreshed, in 1892, but had taken to the pacing gait, 

 at which way of going Jackson I. Case drove him to a record of 2.06? 

 at Independence in August. He is a son of Dictator, grandsire of 

 Direct. 



We cannot pass by the New York Horse Show held in November of 

 1892, in New York city. It was a prima facie evidence of the much 

 mooted and often unwisely disputed fact, that every year people of 

 highest rank in wealth, social distinction, political, professional, and 



