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McGregor, for example, was a horse with espe- 

 cially well-developed hind quarters and this char- 

 acteristic is seen in his sons and grandsons, as 

 shown by Cresceus and Carmon. Abdallah XV 

 was a horse with a particularly attractive head 

 and neck. The frequency with which the Abdal- 

 lah cross appears in Cannon's pedigree and 

 the presence of Morgan, Mambrino Chief and 

 Clay blood readily explains where this horse 

 gets his handsome head and neck and his 

 full quarters and stifles. These families have 

 produced some of our handsomest horses. Their 

 blood makes up nineteen-sixty-fourths of Car- 

 mon's pedigree. 



"The small percentage of pacing blood is 

 worthy of particular notice. Further, the promi- 

 nent trotting sires in it have produced more trot- 

 ters than pacers, and Robert McGregor, Abdal- 

 lah XV, and Ethan Allen are noteworthy for the 

 small number of pacers sired by them or pro- 

 duced by their sons and daughters. This is so 

 small that they may be regarded strictly as 

 sires of trotters. Abdallah XV and Ethan 

 Allen sired no pacers, and of the immediate 



