CONTENTS 



CHAPTER FAGB 



I. The Introduction of the Horse and the Gradual 



Increase of Speed I 



II. From 2.10 to Two Minutes and Better. Tracks, 



Vehicles, and Wind-shields . . . .11 



III. The Two-minute Horses of 1903 . . . .25 



IV. Primordial Streams of Speed .... 36 

 V. The Lady Suffolk Era 40 



VI. Flora Temple, 2.19!, and Dexter, 2.1 7^ . . 46 



VII. Goldsmith Maid and Smuggler . . . 51 



VIII. From the 2.13^ of Rarus to the 2.03! of The Abbot 65 

 IX . Cresceus : Reduction of Stallion Record and Double 



Harness Rivalry 78 



X. The Foundation Horses, Imported Messenger and 



Justin Morgan 86 



XI. Three Energetic Sons of Justin Morgan, Bulrush, 



Woodbury, and Sherman Morgan ... 96 

 XII. The Morrill Tribe and Other Descendants of Justin 



Morgan 105 



XIII. Mambrino Chief and his Descendants . . . 113 



XIV. The Pilot Family 129 



XV. Messenger and the Tribe of Hambletonian . .135 



XVI . Prepotent Sons of Hambletonian, including George 



Wilkes 152 



XVII. The Family of Electioneer 173 



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