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and her legs were so hairy that many who knew her best con- 

 demned the story; hence, all we can say about her is simply that 

 she was a fast developed trotter. Andrew Jackson had but little 

 trotting inheritance from his sire, and his dam was a fast pacing 

 mare of unknown breeding, but his speed was very fully devel- 

 oped as a trotter, and he became the progenitor of the Clay and 

 the Long Island Black Hawk families, that became famous in 

 trotting history. While this reasoning was true in experience 

 and sound under the canons of science, it was not strong and 

 convincing, for the one and only reason that the basis of the 

 generalization was too narrow and lacked in a sufficient number 

 of cases to convince the understanding of the skeptical. We 

 have had to wait for the accumulation of the experiences of a. 

 number of years, and now we have the evidence that is so com- 

 plete as to be really startling and which no man can gainsay. 

 The following little table embraces all the breeding farms in this, 

 country that have produced three or more trotters with records 

 of 2:15 or better, and here the rate of speed is certainly high 

 enough and the foundation is certainly broad enough to furnish 

 just and safe conclusions: 



Leland Stanford 18 Robert G. Stoner 4 



Fashion Stud Farm 13 R. S. Veech 3 



William Corbitt 9 C. W. Williams 3 



Wm. H. Wilson 8 Highland Farm (Lee, Mass.) 3 



C. J. Hamlin 7 Fairlawn Farm 3 



Glenview Farm. 6 E. W. Ayers & 



Timothy Anglin 5 Charles Backman . & 



Henry C. Jewett 4 George H. Ely 3 



Wm. C. France 4 Mrs. S. L. Stout 3 



Woodburn Farm 4 Monroe Salisbury 3 



Quite a number of other breeders have produced one or two- 

 that have made records in 2:15 or better, but I think the above 

 list embraces all that have bred three or more with trotting 

 records of 2:15- or better. The table will be a surprise to every- 

 body, but I doubt whether it will be a greater surprise to any- 

 body than it is to myself. At the head of the list stands the late 

 Senator Stanford's great establishment with eighteen to its 

 credit, but this is not a fair basis of comparison with any other 

 establishment in the whole country, for he had about three hun- 

 dred mares in the trotting department of his breeding stud 

 about six times as large as the average of the larger studs of tho. 



