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half-cross with the Morgan blood. This essentially is 

 the cross that produced Ethan Allen, Fearnaught, 

 Taggart's Abdallah, and many other stallions, whose 

 symmetry of proportion, beauty of color, and no- 

 bility of carriage, would have made them celebrated, 

 even if they had not been speedy. There are some 

 daughters of the old Green-Mountain horse in Vermont 

 yet, whose heads are worthy the pencil and brush of a 

 Bonheur. A Hambletonian stallion, if he be a good 

 specimen of his family, put to such a mare, would be 

 likely to get a colt that would look about right when 

 exhibited to the halter, or when flying down the home- 

 stretch. 



I have now given my views in all frankness touching 

 this somewhat vexed question of ''blood." It is prob- 

 able that many, to whose judgment in any question 

 relating to what is wise or unwise in breeding grave 

 attention should be given, will not agree with me : 

 such entertain the conviction that we must still rely 

 on thorough-bred running-stock for assistance in our 

 effort to produce trotting-horses that shall have the re- 

 quisite stamina and courage to stand the work required 

 to fit them for the supreme effort, and the resolution on 

 the day of the race to do the deed demanded of them. 

 But, for one, I am persuaded that this opinion cannot be 

 maintained in the face of the facts in the case. The 

 record of every year is clearly proving that colts bred 

 from trotting-stock on both sides, unassisted by any 

 cross with the thorough-bred running-stock, are abun- 



