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commercial eminence take more interest in tlie noblest of animals, 

 the horse. The flower of tlie country's equine population was on 

 parade at the Show, and the flower of the people applauded. One of the 

 saddest events was the dethroning of good old Champion Mambrino 

 King, Mr. C. J. Hamlin's entry in the special $1,000 jyvhe class for 

 stallions, by that wonder, Quartermaster, owned by Ruudel and White. 

 King Mambrino moved with the fire of youth, but twenty years have 

 swayed his back, and to some extent weakened his vigor. 



Quartermaster, Mambrino's successor, is a horse of superior conforma- 

 tion and marked individuality. While not, as expressed by inches, a 

 large horse, he is one of great strength and substance, for he weighs, 

 Avhen in fair condition, 1,040 pounds. He is, while stoutly boned and 

 muscled, of remarkabe fineness of form and structure, and a horse of 

 superlative quality. His head and neck are fine, and of resolute and 

 racy expression ; his shoulder oblique and good, the barrel of grand 

 depth and well ribbed, and the quarters long and strongly muscled. 

 Tlie joints are clean-cut and faultless, the legs of whalebone quality, 

 and the feet excellent. Quartermaster has the traveling gear of a 

 campaigner — legs and feet as good as ever a horse stood upon ; and in 

 every inch of him, from nose to heels, there is apparent blood-like 

 quality, and the finish that nothing but princely breeding gives. 



That he inherits the capacities as well as the conformation of a trotter 

 he has amply demonstrated. As a four-year-old, on a half-mile track, 

 being only twenty days out of the stud, and driven by his groom, 

 he made a record of 2.31 in a trial heat. The following year he 

 reduced this to 2. 24 J. He was not trained in 1889. In 1890 he was 

 again placed in training, and reduced his record to 2.21t, but this is 

 by no means an indication of his speed, as he showed a full mile in 

 2.17, half in 1.04j, and quarter in 0.31. In all his races he proved 

 himself to be a game and level-headed trotter. 



His breeding certainly entitles him to success on the turf and in the 

 stud. Alcyone, though he died so young, is one of the greatest sjDeed- 

 producing sons of George Wilkes. He was the most perfectly formed 

 and most superbly finished of all the Wilkes, and indeed, very few horses 

 of his time compared with him in sterling conformation and superla- 

 tive quality. He was a son of the greatest trotting sire the world has 

 seen — George Wilkes ; and his dam. Alma Mater, is as great a brood 

 mare as ever lived. These are not reckless estimates ; but are natural 



