TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Introduction, 5 



Chapter I. Breeding Problem — Heredity — Selection — Cross- 



breeding — In-breeding — Development, - - f) 



Chapter II. Trotting Philosophy — Mental and Physical Organ- 

 ism, 53 



Chapter III. Racing Blood, 77 



Chapter IV. The Pacing Element, 93 



Chapter V. Sources of Trotting Blood — Messenger — Bellfounder 



— Duroc — St. Lawrence — Bashaws — Canadians, 



etc., etc., 106 



Chapter VI. Hambletonian, - - 15j 



Chapter VII. Volunteer, 181 



Chapter VIII. Florida, - - 200 



Chapter IX. Administrator, - - - - - - -312 



Chapter X. Alhambra and Messenger Duroc, - - • 226 



Chapter XI. Everett and the Star-Hambletonians, - - - 240 



Chapter XII. Alexander's Abdallah, and his Descendants, - 262 



Chapter XIII. Clay Hambletonians — George Wilkes — Knicker- 

 bocker — Peacemaker — Blackstone — Black's Ham- 

 bletonian — Hambletonian Prince — Idol and 

 Electioneer, 291 



Chapter XIV. Hambletonians — In-bred Abdallahs — Lakeland Ab- 

 dallah — Stephen A. Douglas — Lysander, - - 311 



CJhapter XV. Other Sons of Hambletonian — Cuyler — Happy 



Medium — Duke of Brunswick — Middletown — 

 Guy Miller — Logan — Seneca Chief — Willie 

 Schepper, 330 



Chapter XVI. Abdallahs, not Hambletonians, of Male and Female 



De.scent. 335 



Chapter XVII. Champions, 343 



Chapter XVIII. Royal Georges, 351 



Chapter XIX. Bashaws and Clays, 367 



(Chapter XX. Smuggler, 387 



Chapter XXI. Governor Sprague, 399 



Chapter XXII. Mambrino Chief, 416 



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