194 THE HORSE 



Santos by Grand Sentinel — he by Sentinel, and Sen- 

 tinel was a son of Rysdyk's Hambletonian. 



The sire of Pilot Medium was Happy Medium (by 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian) , a handsome bay horse, whose 

 dam was the noted, highly-finished trotting mare. Prin- 

 cess — a rival of Flora Temple. It will thus be seen 

 that Peter the Great is an inbred Hambletonian, and 

 yet without a drop of either Wilkes or Electioneer 

 blood. This family should therefore furnish an excel- 

 lent "outcross" both for the Wilkes and the Electioneer 

 families. As race horses the sons and daughters of 

 Peter the Great are considered to surpass all others, 

 even the Bingens; but they have not, as a rule, the 

 sweet temper or the style and beauty of the Bingara 

 and some other Bingen strains. Their faults are a 

 tendency to be leggy, to have coarse heads, and to be 

 low-headed. Nevertheless there are many handsome, 

 high-headed animals among them, such, for example, 

 as Baron Peter, Peter Pilot, and Azoff. 



Peter the Great sired very few colts in the early part 

 of his career, so that Bingen (who is now dead) out- 

 stripped him at first, and the grandsons of Peter the 

 Great are not yet so numerous as those of Bingen. 

 However, so far as the matter can now be judged, the 

 family of Peter the Great is not "breeding on" so 

 well as the Bingen family. 



MINOR HAMBLETONIAN FAMILIES 



Hambletonian families that have cut a great figure 

 in the past, but are now nearly extinct in the male 

 line, are those of Belmont, Almont, and Major Edsall. 



