stances in 2:20 and 2:21|. This practically closed his turf 

 career. He made a number of seasons at Fashion Farm, and in 

 his later years at Walnut Hill Farm, near Lexington, Kentucky, 

 and died of old age June 10, 1894. Jay Gould's opportunities 

 were never of the best. In his earlier years in the stud General 

 Knox was more used at Fashion Farm than Jay Gould, and there 

 was no training done at Fashion until 1886. Jay Gould is the 

 sire of twenty-nine standard performers, the most noted of which 

 is the great mare Pixley, 2:08^. Fourteen of his sons have pro- 

 duced thirty standard performers, and twenty-eight of his 

 daughters have produced forty-six performers, among the latter 

 being the great pacer, Kobert J., 2:0l, and such trotters as Poem, 

 2:1H, Colonel Kuser, 2:11^, Mahogany, 2:12, Edgardo, 2:13|, etc. 

 His most noted producing daughter is Lucia, whose dam was the 

 famous old trotting mare Lucy, 2:18^, by George M. Patchen, 

 2:23|. Lucia is the dam of Edgardo, 2:13f, Hurly Burly, 2:16i, 

 and several others in the 2:30 list, and her blood is breeding OR 

 through both her sons and daughters. 



STRATHMORE, taking all things into consideration, must be 

 rated among the very greatest sous of Hambletonian. He was a, 

 solid bay horse, of the substantial Hambletonian type, foaled 

 1866, bred by Aristides Welch at his Chestnut Hill farm, near 

 Philadelphia, and was got by Hambletonian out of the quite 

 famous trotting mare Lady Waltermire, by North American, and 

 Lady Waltermire's dam was said to have been by Harris' Ham- 

 bletonian. This North American sired Whitehall, that got the 

 famous trotter Rhode Island, sire of the still more celebrated 

 Governor Sprague, and in the section treating of the latter the 

 reader will find particulars concerning North American. Lady 

 Waltermire was a noted trotting mare in her day, and it has been 

 claimed that she performed faster than 2:30, but I have never 

 been able to substantiate this claim. When Strathmore was a, 

 three-year-old, in 1869, 1 visited Chestnut Hill. Mr. Welch then 

 had three sons of Hambletonian, viz., William Welch, Rysdyk, 

 and Strathmore, who was then called Goodwin Watson. The two 

 former were led out to be shown, but when I inquired for Good- 

 win Watson, Mr. Welch's reply was "Oh, he's a pacer" except 

 that he used an adjective in connection with "pacer" that added 

 emphasis, and betrayed some degree of regret, or indeed dis- 

 gust. The fact that several of Strathmore's sons have gotten 

 many fast pacers need not be marveled at. I am not aware that 



