i26 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



kindred strains were reunited with the vigor- 

 imparting influence of the climatic outcross, 

 and trotting conformation was advanced and 

 improved and trotting action intensified. For 

 an illustration, Alix, 2.c3f ; Fantasy, 2.06; Ralph 

 Wilkes, 2.o6f ; Stamboul, 2.07^-; Kremlin, 2.07!, 

 and Arion, 2.07^, are bred this way. Trinket, 

 who was the sensational four-year-old of 1879, 

 was a striking example of how the Mambrino 

 Chief and Hambletonian strains could be inter- 

 woven. Princeps, her sire, was by Woodford 

 Mambrino (son of Mambrino Chief), out of 

 Primrose by Alexander's Abdallah (son of Ham- 

 bletonian), and Ouida, her dam, was by Hamble- 

 tonian. The thoughtful observer always draws 

 a line between inbreeding for desirable qualities 

 and incestuous breeding. 



Jessie Pepper was a brown mare of 16 hands, 

 foaled 1860, and by Mambrino Chief out of Lena 

 Pepper by Sidi Hamet, a thoroughbred. She 

 was a handsome mare, possessed of speed, and 

 the simple statement that she had 18 foals 

 speaks well for her vitality. Ten of these foals 

 by eight different stallions were producers of 

 speed. Annabel by George Wilkes (son of 

 Hambletonian) was her best daughter, and the 



