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looking for, but something to support that ignorant and stupid 

 theory. 



A careful study of the statistics of this horse will teach a valu- 

 able lesson. He put fifty-six trotters into the 2:30 list,, varying 

 in speed from 2:30 to 2:17^, and five of this number in 2:20 or bet- 

 ter. He also got four pacers with records from 2:24^ to 2:16^. 

 It thus appears that this horse, without any known trotting 

 blood,, got fifty-four trotters to four pacers, which clearly shows 

 that an inheritance of speed at the pace may be transmitted at 

 the trot, as well as the pace. When we come to his progeny, we 

 find that forty-seven of his sons have to their credit one hundred 

 and four performers, making an average of a little more than two 

 each. These sons are all past maturity and some of them dead 

 of old age, and not one of them has ever reached mediocrity in 

 merit as a sire. He left seventy-seven daughters that have pro- 

 duced one hundred and seven performers, and if we had time to 

 trace out these performers we would find that they were gener- 

 ally by strains of blood stronger and better than the blood of 

 Blue Bull. While, therefore, we can acknowledge Blue Bull's 

 greatness as a getter of speed from his own loins, we must 

 acknowledge that his sons and daughters as the producers of speed 

 are failures. It is possible that some representative of the tribe 

 may spring up and restore the prestige of the family, but as 

 the source is sporadic and as the country is filled up with trotting 

 elements that are more prepotent, it is more likely to be swal- 

 lowed up and lose its family identity. 



CADMUS (known as Irons' Cadmus) was the head of a very 

 small family that occasionally developed phenomenal speed either 

 at the pace or the trot. He was a chestnut horse nearly sixteen 

 hands high, strong and active, with four white feet. He was 

 foaled 1840 and was got by Cadmus, the thoroughbred son of 

 American Eclipse, and was bred by Goldsmith Coffein, Red Lion, 

 AVarren County, Ohio. His dam was a chestnut pacing mare 

 that Mr. Coffein got in a trade, from a traveler, and nothing was 

 ever known of her breeding. A pedigree was shaped up for her 

 that seemed to make her thoroughbred and her son took a prize 

 on it once, as a thoroughbred, but it was wholly untrue. Mr. 

 Joh n Irons of the same county became joint owner in this horse, and 

 he became widely known as "Irons' Cadmus." To close this part- 

 nership he was sold, 1850, and taken to Richmond, Indiana; then 



