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Lady Hamilton, and one fairly good producing 

 son, Field's Royal George, the sire of Byron, 

 2.25^. After the Civil War Buffalo became a 

 great breeding centre, and the blood of Royal 

 George was at the foundation of some of the estab- 

 lishments. In this way the strain obtained more 

 prominence than it otherwise would have done. 



The Morse Horse 



The Morse Horse, whose number in the reg- 

 ister is 6, was a gray, foaled in 1834, bred by 

 James McNitt of Washington County, New 

 York, and by European, an imported French 

 horse from Canada; dam Beck by Harris's Ham- 

 bletonian, son of Bishop's Hambletonian. He 

 was owned for many years by Calvin Morse, and 

 contributed one trotter, Gray Eddy, to the 2.30 

 list. The best of his get was Alexander's Nor- 

 man, a bay horse foaled in 1848, and dam by 

 Jersey Highlander, second dam by Bishop's 

 Hambletonian. In 1859 R. A. Alexander placed 

 him in the stud at Woodburn, where he became 

 the chief of a small tribe. Kate Crockett, by 

 imported Hooton, was bred to him, and the re- 

 sult was the celebrated trotting mare Lula, 2.15, 

 dam of Lula Wilkes, dam of Advertiser, 2.15^, 



