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of producing mares, are greatly and justly esteemed as brood 

 mares. Belmont died at Woodburn November 15, 1889. Bel- 

 mont got fifty-eight standard performers, sixty-three of his sons 

 sired four hundred and eighty-nine standard performers, and 

 forty-eight of his daughters produced seventy-one standard per- 

 formers. The rank of his best sons is shown on the preceding 

 page; all having ten or more in the list of standard performers 

 being included in the table. 



VOLUNTEER stands pre-eminent among trotting sires as the 

 one horse against not one of whose get the epithet "quitter" 

 was, as far as I am aware, ever hurled. He did not get speed 

 with remarkable uniformity, nor did his progeny develop speed 

 early or rapidly. They required persistent training, but when 

 speed was developed in a Volunteer you had with it every other 

 quality of a resolute, enduring race horse. They were hardy, 

 rugged, good-limbed horses, and uniformly possessed stamina 

 and resolution in the highest degree. Volunteer had the advan- 

 tage of being owned by Alden Goldsmith, an ambitious and 

 experienced horseman, and the father of two of the most success- 

 ful trainers of our day. The Volunteers had, therefore, every 

 advantage that training could give, and his rise to fame was 

 largely due to Mr. Goldsmith's constantly developing and racing 

 his progeny. 



In 1853 Mr. Joseph Hetzel, Florida, Orange County, New 

 York, bred the bay mare Lady Patriot to Hambletonian, 10, and 

 Volunteer was foaled May 1, 1854. This mare, Lady Patriot, 

 was by a horse called Young Patriot, and out of Mr. Lewis 

 Hulse's trotting mare, and that is all that is known of her pedi- 

 gree. Her sire's pedigree is wholly unknown. She produced a 

 numerous family, among them being Sentinel, 2:29f, and Green's 

 Hambletonian, brothers of Volunteer, and of some rank as sires, 

 and Marksman, by Thorndale, that is also in the table of sires, 

 while her daughter Heroine, sister to Volunteer, produced 

 Shawmut, 2:26. 



Volunteer was a bay horse, with a little white around the left 

 hind coronet, fifteen hands three inches at the wither, and six- 

 teen hands measured at the coupling. He has been considered 

 by many good judges to have been the handsomest of all the sons 

 of Hambletonian. He was a horse of superb form and of great 

 elegance of carriage. With sufficient of muscle and substance, 

 he was built on graceful, finished lines, with a beautiful head 



