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by St. Julien to 2. 11 J. This is a big, slashing bay 

 horse, with a large but good head, wide hips, and pow- 

 erful hiud legs. His sire was Volunteer, who was by 

 the famous Rysdyck's Hambletonian, Volunteer's dam 

 being a well-bred mare, from whom he derived a hand- 

 some head and neck and a high spirit, these being 

 characteristics seldom found in the Hambletonian 

 strain. The dam of St. Julien was of the Clay fam- 

 ily, which he closely resembled. St. Julien, like many 

 other trotters, was not educated to the turf without 

 the expenditure of exceeding pains on the part of his 

 trainer and driver, Mr. Orrin Hickock. He is a very 

 nervous horse, and it required months of practice be- 

 fore he became accustomed to "scoring," so that he 

 was fit to start in a race. 



A year later, Maud S. reduced the record to 2. 10 J, 

 and again in 1885, to 2.08|, which is still the best 

 time for a regulation or oval-shaped track, though 

 on the kite-shaped track Palo Alto equalled it, and 

 Sunol surpassed it by half a second in the autumn of 

 1891. Jay-Eye-See, with his record of 2.10, held the 

 supremacy for a single day in 1884. He is an honest 

 but ugly little black horse, having hind legs of tre- 

 mendous power, which propel him with the accuracy 

 and force of locomotive driving-wheels. Jay-Eye-See 

 was by Dictator, a son of Rysdyck's Hambletonian, 

 and brother to Dexter. Jay-Eye-See's dam was a 

 daughter of Pilot Jr., and his grandam was by Lex- 

 ington, a famous race horse inbred to Diomed. Maud 

 S., as we have seen, was bred in much the same way. 

 Her sire was Harold, by Rysdyck's Hambletonian ; 

 her dam was Miss Russell, by Pilot Jr., and her 

 grandam was by Boston, the four-mile racer, and sire 



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