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a sire instead of a clam. In addition to this, the list of fast trotters 

 which come through a short pedigree on the dam's side, including 

 some thoroughbred crosses, is a very large one as compared with the 

 list of those that come through a pedigree on the dam's side, ending 

 with a thoroughbred mare. Otherwise exjDressed, many thoroughl^red 

 sires have a place at the further end of a trotter's pedigree, but very 

 rarely can there be found at such a place the name of a thoroughbred 

 mare. The lesson taught by these facts is, that a thoroughbred mare, 

 or a pedigree that runs back to a thoroughbred mare, is not desirable 

 in an establishment devoted to the breeding of trotting stock. 



A like rule, deducible from the foregoing facts, would govern me 

 in the selection of a mare with the view of securing strains of racing 

 blood intermingled with trotting crosses. I should seek one in whose 

 composition remote or entirely foreign crosses had been avoided. I 

 want the trotting crosses and the lines of racing blood as equally 

 intermingled as possible. Thus, Pilot Jr., the best son of old Pilot, 

 came from a mare with two direct thoroughbred crosses. He produced 

 the dam of Mambrino Pilot from a mare also having two links of 

 racing ancestry; and Mambrino Pilot, thus bred, was one of the best 

 sons of Mambrino Chief. 



Still further: Mambrino Gift, the best son of Mambrino Pilot, was 

 produced from a mare having two trotting crosses, whose second dam 

 was by Oliver, a thoroughbred. 



The breeding of my own stallion. Argonaut, affords the best illus- 

 tration I can present. He is by Woodburn Pilot, a trotter. The dam 

 of "Woodburn Pilot was by Mambrino Chief, and his 2d dam was by 

 old Red-buck, the pacer, who is claimed to have paced under 3:20, 

 and was of the CopiDcr-bottom family. Woodburn Pilot was by Pilot 

 Jr., a trotter, the best son of old Pilot, the pacer. His dam was by 

 Havoc — a thoroughbred — and 2d dam by Alfred, also a thoroughbred. 

 The dam of Argonaut was by Toronto, a trotter and pacer, son of St. 

 Lawrence, a trotter, and the dam of Toronto was by Cadmus, the 

 thoroughbred; the 2d dam of Ai-gonaut was by DoAvning's Bay Mes- 

 senger, and sister to Jim Porter, the trotter; the 3d dam was Madam 

 Porter, by Roman's Oqahan Boy, he by Orphan Boy, son of American 

 Ecli]jse; the 4th dam was by Bertrand, and the 5th by Sir Archy. 

 Roman's Orphan Boy was the same distance from a thoroughbred — 

 being by such a sire — and 1st dam by Bertrand, and 2d dam by Sir 

 Archy. In each case, coming from mares that were only part- 

 bred, but directly descended from thoroughbred sires. It will be 



