74 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



who had to do with the colt at the time, that he trotted to 

 a wagon. 



Kentucky Chief, who won the first heat, and afterwards 

 went to California, where he died, was another good one. 

 He went in harness. Idol was another very fast one when 

 young ; and Brignoli was thought to be about as good as 

 they are made. Royal George was another very fast one ; 

 and quite recently there have been Mr. Alexander's gray 

 geldings Dudley and Bull Run, and his bay stallion Bay 

 Chief. The information as to Morgan Chief, or Ericsson, as 

 he is now called, having trotted that mile in two thirty and 

 a half, to wagon, came from a gentleman who had an inter- 

 est in him at the time, and brought a trotter from Kentucky 

 to me to be trained last fall. He said, too, that he was a 

 great, overgrown colt, standing about sixteen and a half 

 hands high, and could trot faster to a wagon than he could 

 to a sulky. That was the same meeting where Cora made 

 her two minutes thirty-seven and three-quarters, and 

 Medoc, since called John Morgan, won at two and three 

 mile heats. 



