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Swiveler, owned by wealthy men, have attracted much atten- 

 tion. The breeder of good horses at once asks, "How are they 

 bred?" We answer Maud S., Edward, Dick Swiveler, and 

 Cleora are by sons of Rysdyk's Hambletonian. Aldine is by 

 Almont, his grandson, Independence is by General Knox, a di- 

 rect descendant of Sherman Black Hawk. 



Of the dams of these six noted performers, one was by a son 

 of Rysdyk's Hambletonian ; one by Mambrino Patchen, son of 

 Mambrino Chief; one by Henry Clay, Jr.; one by Johnson's 

 Toronto ; one by Pilot, Jr., and one said to be by Bacchus. 

 The breeding of such teams is instructive, and shows that 

 breeding in line for trotters gets trotters, and of such rare qual- 

 ity that there is no shadow of excuse for seeking running 

 blood as a new element. 



The Element of Running Blood. The dam of Maud 

 S. was Miss Russell, by Pilot, Jr. She, out of Sally Russell, 

 by the thorough-bred horse, Boston, the sire of Lexington. In 

 this breeding, the thorough-bred claimants find comfort, arid 

 generally neglect to say that the sire of Maud S. was Harold, 

 a trotter bred, and an in-bred Hambletonian and getter of trot- 

 ters. Miss Russell certainly can not be claimed as a thorough- 

 bred, or largely so. She is by Pilot, Jr., and he by Pacing 

 Pilot, of whose blood little is known, but that he was a pacer 

 does not argue thorough-bred ancestry. He got such trotters as 

 John Morgan, 2.24; Pilot Temple, 2.24* ; Tackey, 2.26; Tat- 

 tler, 2.26; Queen of the West, 2.26i ; General Sherman, 2.281 ; 

 and Dixie, 2.30. 



But Maud S. had for a dam a mare got by Pilot, Jr. The 

 grand dam, Sally Russell, by Boston, is the animal having 

 thorough-bred blood in her veins. It is hardly good reasoning 

 to give all credit for Maud S.'s good traits to this one thorough- 

 bred cross, while Harold, an in-bred trotter, got Noontide, 

 2.20i; McCurdy's Hambletonian, 2.26*; Daciana, 2.27* ; Good 

 Morning, 2.28i. Surely in her breeding the trotting blood, so 

 far, outweighs the remote and unimportant sprinkle of running 

 blood, that we may justly infer that there is a prepotency and 

 power inherent in the well-bred trotter, that is to be relied 



