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speed of which this gelding was capable was about 2:40, and at 

 last, in a race of mile heats with some fifth-rate old pelter, at 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, on a very hot day, he fell exhausted on the 

 track and died from the effects of the heat, But the great fame 

 of being the only horse able to trot twenty miles within the hour 

 did not long remain with this son of imported Trustee. Five 

 others have done the same thing, viz., Captain Magowan, Con- 

 troller, John Stewart, Mattie Howard, and Lady Fulton, all of 

 whom went faster than Trustee, except Lady Fulton. 



There have been many crucial tests of the "staying qualities" 

 of running blood in the trotter, as against the trotter without 

 any running blood, in which the running blood has uniformly 

 been worsted. The last of these which I now recall was a match 

 for two thousand dollars between Scotland, a half-bred son of 

 imported Bonnie Scotland, and Lizzie M., by Thomas Jefferson, 

 and out of a pacing mare. The race was two-mile heats, best 

 three in five ^a very unusual race, and admirably adapted to test 

 the staying powers of the contestants. Scotland was a fast and 

 well-seasoned trotter; while the mare had, probably, a little 

 higher flight of speed she never had been tried at such a distance, 

 and in her breeding she was short, and had not a single drop of 

 running blood in her inheritance. The mare won the first and 

 second heats in 4:56 5:03, and the gelding the third heat in 

 4:55^, the fastest in the race, but he was not able to come again, 

 and the last heat was won by the mare in 4:58-J. This race took place 

 at Philadelphia in 1883, and if, at that time, there still remained 

 any advocates of "more running blood in the trotter," they have 

 not since been in evidence, with two or three addle-pated excep- 

 tions. 



In looking back over the many years I have devoted to the litera- 

 ture of the horse, and especially to the breeding of the trotting 

 horse, I can find no word in the English language that has been 

 so much abused as the word "thoroughbred." A minister wrote 

 a great, pretentious book on the horse in which he maintained 

 that the Morgan horse was a "thoroughbred." A lawyer wrote 

 another pretentious book in which he maintained that the trot- 

 ting horse Dexter was a "thoroughbred." With these two 

 shining lights in the learned professions writing books on the 

 horse and pronouncing this family or that individual "thorough- 

 bred" without knowing the meaning of the term, we should not 

 deal too severely with uneducated men for following their exam- 



