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a fair test can not be expected. It takes so many years to develop 

 the trotters and bring them to the highest degree of excellence that 

 before they are ready to be transfen-ed from the department of per- 

 formance to that of reproduction, their age unfits them for the greatest 

 excellence in the latter. Thus far but a small number of great trot- 

 ters have produced stallions that approach the front rank. Princess 

 enjoyed a short career on the trotting turf after several years use as a 

 roadster, in both of which departments she was distinguished, and then 

 produced the stallion Happy Medium, who undoubtedly displays 

 much of the trotting quality for which she was noted. 



Sally Miller, the dam of Long Island Blackhawk, was a trotter and 

 road mare of distinction in her day, her claims to that rank being 

 founded both in her performances at one and two-mile heats, and in 

 her being either a granddaughter or a great-granddaughter of Mes- 

 senger. 



Flora Temple has also left a son that has some claims to trotting 

 excellence, but is yet not known to rank as a distinguished stallion. 



Lady Thorn has left a son yet too young to settle the question 

 whether her high degree of perfection as a trotter was in her favor as 

 the dam of a great stallion, and the same observation will apply to the 

 son of Lucy, her distinguished companion and old-time competitor. It 

 is certainly true that the renown of Lady Thorn as a trotter, and her 

 brother Mambrino Patchen as the sire of trotters, in large part origi- 

 nated in the fact that their dam was a highly bred and fully developed 

 road mare, in constant service and of great reputed excellence. 



Amazonia, the dam of Abdallah, was the most noted road mare of 

 her day; bred from the most noted road stock, but without any of the 

 so-called development in any way, except hard and constant use on 

 the road, where she had no peer. In her blood constituents and in 

 her acquired and steadily maintained excellence, she was the worthy 

 maternity of the greatest trotting family of our country, but not less 

 distinguished in each of the above respects was the Charles Kent 

 mare, the dam of Hambletonion. 



She was deeply in -bred in the best trotting blood — herself a daughter 

 of one of the best natm-al trotters our country then had, and for many 

 years was as much famed on the road as the distinguished dam of Ab- 

 dallah. From such parentage it is no strange phenomenon in breeding 

 that there came the founder or progenitor of a trotting race or family 

 the greatest the world has yet seen. 



The dam of Alexander's Abdallah, the most successful of the sons 



