.502 THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



country. The average number of horses in training, the year 

 round, was about eighty, exclusive of yearlings and the kinder- 

 garten. In attempting to institute a comparison,, therefore, with 

 the average breeders of the country, we might as well compare 

 the daily receipts of John Wanamaker's store with those of the 

 little green-grocer on the corner. But at the head of this estab- 

 lishment stood the great Electioneer with his strong breeding 

 and trotting speed well developed, and indeed, in many respects 

 the greatest horse of his generation. He was the sire of eleven 

 in the list, and the remainder were either by his sons or out of 

 his daughters. 



Mr. Henry N. Smith, of New York, a prominent Wall Street 

 man, became greatly interested in trotting sport, and in 1868 he 

 organized a trotting stable of his own, which contained some re- 

 markable animals, as will be seen below. His stable was very 

 .successful, and this success naturally increased his attachment 

 to the trotting interests. He then determined to establish a 

 breeding farm, and about the year 1869 he purchased the famous 

 old Fashion Course adjoining Trenton, New Jersey, embracing 

 one hundred and forty-five acres of land and provided with an 

 excellent mile track and much stabling that had been constructed 

 vears before for running horses. This property he very appro- 

 priately named the ' 'Fashion Stud Farm," and on it he placed 

 the grandest assemblage of developed trotters, for breeding pur- 

 poses only, that had ever been brought together in this or any 

 other country. His stallions were Jay Gould, 2:20|, Tattler, 

 2:26, and Gen. Knox, 2:31-|. This was Knox's fastest record, 

 but it was known he had trotted miles, in races, faster than this. 

 'The speed of all three horses was developed, and it is evident 

 at a glance that there was only one first-class horse among them. 

 But the great strength of the establishment was in the grand 

 galaxy of mares, some of which I will enumerate, namely, Gold- 

 smith Maid, 2:14, Lady Thorn, 2:18J, Lucy, 2:18i, Lady Maud, 

 2:18i, Rosalind, 2:21|, Belle Strickland, 2:26, Western Girl, 2:27, 

 Idol, 2:27, Big Mary, 2:28-J, Daisy Burns, 2:28, Music's Dam (that 

 had produced 2:21^ speed), besides others with slower records or 

 known to have had their speed developed as fast road mares, 

 making in all about thirty mares on the farm, and Mr. Smith 

 claimed that every one of them had shown more or less speed as 

 trotters. 



Mr. Smith neither knew nor cared much about pedigrees, in a 



