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There are many grand horses worthy of notice herein, but 

 space forbids. As an illustration of what a horse of rare excel- 

 lence may do for those who may be so fortunate as to own him 

 or his descendants, we will close this paper with one from the 

 TnrJ\ Field and Farm. 



The Hambletonians. The money value of the sons and 

 daughters of Rysdyk's Hambletonian that have beaten 2.30 can 

 not be computed. "The stallion himself was purchased with 

 his dam for $125, and earned in the stud $205,750. Thirty-six 

 of his get have trotted in 2.30 or better, and the prices for 

 which they could have been sold, in their best days, are as 

 follows : 



Dexter $35,000, Jay Gould $30,000, Nettie $25,000, George 

 Wilkes $25,000, Gazelle $20,000, Bella $15,000, Mattic $15,000, 

 Bruno $15,000, Deucalion $10,000, Enfield $10,000, Orange 

 Girl $10,000, Sentinel $10,000, James Howell, Jr., $10,000, Har- 

 vest Queen $8,000, Lottery $8,000, Small Hopes $S ? 000, Young 

 Bruno $8,000, Kisber $7,000, Madeline $6,000, Breeze $6,000, 

 Administrator $5,000, Drift $5,000, Effie Deans $4,000. Ella 

 Madden $4,000, Lottery $4,000, Lottie $4,000, Scotland Maid 

 $4,000, Chester $3,500, Ilamperion $3,500, Factory Girl $3,000, 

 Jerome $3,000, Maud $3,000, Alma $2,500, Astoria $2,500, 

 Lady Augusta $2,500, Marguerite $2,500. This is a total of 

 $325,000, as a fair estimate of the actual cash value. 



The stallions in the list, which have won renown in the stud, 

 are Sentinel, George Wilkes, Jay Gould, and Administrator. 

 Their united progeny is worth a great many thousand dollars. 

 George Wilkes, for instance, is the sire of twenty-six 2.30 

 trotters, including Wilson, 2.16i; Rosa Wilkes, 2.18i; Joe 

 Bunker, 2.191 ; So-so, 2.17i ; and May Bird, 2.21. Sentinel has 

 eight 2.30 performers to his credit, among them Von Arnim, 

 2.19*. The fastest of Jay Gould's get is Adde Gould, 2.19, 

 and the best one from the loins of Administrator is Catchfly, 

 2.19. The entire sons of Hambletonian which have no place in 

 the 2:30 circle, but which have been successful in the stud, are 

 very numerous. Alexander's Abdullah was sold for about 

 $3.500, but he got Goldsmith Maid, who made a record of 2.14, 



