TROTTING FAMILIES. 53 



country, and his owner challenged the world at four- 

 mile heats. Boston, a grandson of Sir Archy, started 

 in forty-five races and won forty, of which thirty were 

 races of four-mile heats. Lexington, son of Boston, 

 was also a noted long-distance runner. Both Boston 

 and Lexington were inbred to Diomed. 



When we turn to the very fastest trotters and pacers, 

 we rind, as I have stated, that the blood of Diomed, 

 chiefly through his son Sir Archy, figures not very 

 remotely in their pedigrees. Thus, Miss Russell, dam 

 of Maud S. and of Nutwood, 1 was out of Sally Russell, 

 a daughter of Boston, and the dam of Miss Russell's 

 sire, Pilot Jr., was by Havoc, by Sir Charles, a grand- 

 son of Diomed. The grandam of Jay-Eye-See was by 

 Lexington. 



The dam of the wonderful Arion, whose two-year- 

 old record is 2.10|, was by Nutwood, just mentioned. 

 In the pedigree of Direct, the pacer who holds the 

 fastest record, of Allerton, of Nancy Hanks, and of 

 others scarcely inferior, will be found a double, and 

 sometimes a triple and quadruple cross of Diomed 

 blood. If it be asked what essential quality these 

 horses may be supposed to derive from Diomed, the 

 answer would be that it is gameness, endurance, or 

 "nerve force." Speaking generally, Messenger con- 

 tributed the action, and Diomed contributed the inward 

 spirit, both of which are necessary to bring a trotter 

 to the wire in superlatively fast time. 



Other thoroughbreds that figure largely in trotting 

 pedigrees are Trustee, Glencoe, and Margrave ; and it 

 is a notable fact that all these names, as well as the 



1 His record is 2. 18 \, and no less than seventy-five of his sons 

 and daughters, including pacers, are in the 2.30 list. 



