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fact is, all things being candidly considered, I believe 

 every one will admit that they have produced more 

 trotters than any other family in the world. I ask the 

 reader to bear in mind, that in Justin Morgan's day, 

 and also during the lifetime of his immediate descend- 

 ants, trotting, as we understand it, was not in vogue. 

 The State of Vermont is, moreover, ill adapted, in its 

 topography and the industries of its inhabitants, to 

 develop fast trotting-horses. The roads are hilly, and, 

 up to a very recent period, the tracks few. Lumbering, 

 and clearing up farm-lands and staging, in a mountain- 

 ous country, are not just the work one would select 

 to develop trotters. How much, think you, do the 

 Ilambletonian and Clay families owe to training ? All 

 that money and skill could do for them has been done. 

 Every colt with any promise, sired by Hysdyk's horse, 

 has been cultured and . developed to the limit of the 

 possible. But the. Morgan horses have never been 

 petted. They were not thus favored. Circumstances 

 were all against the' family ; and no careful student will 

 forget this fact when studying the question. Neverthe- 

 less, in spite of neglect and adverse circumstances, the 

 Morgan horse need ask no odds of any. To his beauty, 

 docility, endurance, his friends can add the word speedy 

 and bide, with cheerfulness, investigation and compari- 

 son. The farther I push my inquiries in this direction, 

 the more am I astonished at the evidence. The num- 

 ber of fast horses lineally descended in the male line 

 from Justin Morgan surprise me. I submit the follow- 

 ing list in proof: — 



