80 RACIISTG BLOOD IN THE TROTTER. 



unsuited to any thoroughljred mare. Tliis I attribute mainly to the 

 obstinacy of the Bellfounder element, one of the most valuable but 

 peculiar elements ever introduced into our trotting horse. The Mamr- 

 brino Chiefs, the Pilots, and Strader's C. M. Clay have succeeded with 

 mares so bred better than any other families; and particularly the 

 latter, he having produced one son, American Clay, that is a successful 

 sire of trotters, and could trot at twelve years of age about as fast as 

 at three — which is quite uncommon for sons of a thoroughbred mare 

 of any family. Mambrino Chief and Pilot Jr. were sires of many 

 trotters that came from thoroughbred dams, and trotted very fast for 

 two and three-year-olds, but were lost to sight after that period. On 

 the other hand, the list and number of mares whose sire was a thor- 

 oughbred, and whose dams were even by a thoroughbred, that have 

 borne trotters to a trotting sire, capable of trotting to a grand old age, 

 and improving until well up in the teens, is already quite a noticeable 

 one. 



Lady Thorn's first dam was by a thoroughbred; her second dam by a 

 son of a thoroughbred. Lula's dam was by imp. Hooton, a thorough- 

 bred, but was not herself a thoroughbred. The dam of May Queen, 

 or Nashville Girl, was by Crockett's Arabian, and goes no further. 

 Middletown produced Music, his best foal by the record, from a mare 

 by Roe's Fiddler, a son of Fiddler, a thoroughbred. The dam of Vol- 

 unteer was by a horse probably thoroughbred, or very nearly so. The 

 dam of American Girl was by Contract,, a thoroughbred. The dam 

 of Lady Stout was by Mark Time, a thoroughbred. The dam of Geo. 

 M. Patchen was by a highly-bred son of a thoroughbred. The dam of 

 Jim Irving was by a horse probably thoroughbred, or very nearly so. 

 The dam of Lucy was by May Day, he by Henry, and his dam by 

 Duroc. The dam of Pilot Jr. was by a thoroughbred, as was also his 

 second dam. The dam of Medoc, or John Morgan, was by a thorough- 

 bred, but was not a thoroughbred — or at least she was one of those 

 alleged thoroughbreds that had no authentic pedigree, and these are 

 usually not thoroughbred. The dam of Rhode Island was by Nigger 

 Baby, a horse that was a short-distance race-horse, and very nearly if 

 not quite a thoroughbred. The dam of the mare Jennj^, by Red 

 Eagle, was by Pataskala, thoroughbred son of Boston. The dam of 

 Bell of Patterson was by Liberty, a son of Lance, and a thorough) )re(L 

 The dam of Woodfoi-d Mambrino, the fastest son of MambrinO' 

 Chief, was by Woodford, a thoroiighbred. The dam of Brignoli, one 

 of the fastest of the sons of Mambrino Chief, was by Woodford. Jim 



