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been subjected should be spoken of, for they have 

 been cruel and continuous, and have done great 

 injustice to one of the most sincere, most honest 

 and most capable horse breeders who has ever 

 lived and worked in this country. Moreover, he 

 has had more than a due share of misfortune in 

 one way and another. 



When he had got well along with his experi- 

 ments with the Clay mares and the Grant stal- 

 lions, and proved to his own satisfaction and that, 

 also, of many of the friends who were observing 

 his operations, it was considered desirable to en- 

 large the plant. There were few sales, for the ob- 

 viously wise course was to keep the collection to- 

 gether for observation and until the type sought 

 after should be fixed and reproducing. So more 

 capital was taken in, and a man considered one 

 of the chief financial lawyers of New York, or- 

 ganized a company and became its treasurer. In 

 a year or so this lawyer was apprehended in some 

 of the most far reaching financial rascalities ever 

 perpetrated in the metropolis. He ruined estates 

 in his charge, and corporations with which he 

 was connected. Mr. Huntington's horse-breeding 



