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THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



standard performers, (d) The number of standard performers produced by- 

 these sons and daughters, and finally, in the last column, the total number o" 

 standard performers produced in the two generations i. e., by the sire himself, 

 and by his sons and daughters. The dates of foaling and death are important 

 in considering the opportunities of the families embraced.] 



The first table following gives .some idea of the supremacy of 

 the Hambletonian family over all others. When we seek a rival 

 to Hambletonian as a trotting progenitor we must do so among 

 his sons; and by turning to the second table it will be noted that 

 many of these outrank the founders of any and all the other 

 great trotting families. 



FOUNDERS OF THE GREAT TROTTING FAMILIES. 



In this table Ethan Allen is given as the representative of his 

 family in preference to his sire, Black Hawk, the real founder,, 

 for the reasons that he was a far greater horse, and makes a bet- 

 ter showing than his sire, and further because he was a contem- 

 porary of Hambletonian. For exactly the same reasons 

 George M. Patchen is given as the representative progenitor of 

 the Clay line. 



The next table demonstrates what the Hambletonian family has 

 done in the second and third generations, and the relative stand- 

 ing of the leading sub-families of the greatest trotting line. It 

 embraces separately every sire that has to his own credit and to 

 the credit of his sons and daughters an aggregate of fifty or more 

 standard performers, twenty-three in all, while the totals to the; 



