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It will answer the purpose of giving stamina and high quality, 

 when employed on the side of the dam as heretofore indicated, but 

 when employed on the side of the sire the tendency is toward the 

 original, whose habits were those of a galloper and not a trotter. 

 Diomed never produced a trotting sire, and no sire strong in that 

 blood will produce trotters or those capable of transmitting the trot- 

 ting quality. 



The other family claimed to have special excellence in trotting 

 quality, was that of imported Trustee, and his reputation rests, in part, 

 on the fact that he was the sire of Trustee, the horse that was the first 

 to trot twenty miles inside an hour. Whether this fact should be 

 regarded as sufficient to enable the Trustees to rank as a trotting- 

 family of thoroughbreds, since the appearance of Jim Irving, Grafton, 

 and Jennie, all faster trotters than Trustee, is somewhat doubtful, and 

 the doubt is greatly increased b}^ the fact that Fanny Pullen, the dam 

 of Trustee, was herself a great trotter and far superior to the dams of 

 either of the above-named trotters. 



It is supposed by some, that imported Trustee possessed no more 

 adaptation in blood qualities to the production of trotters than Boston, 

 Red Eye, ^Melbourne or many other of our stout and lasting race- 

 horses; and that now and then a descendant of Leamington, Bonnie 

 Scotland, Hurrah, Priam, Australian or Longfellow will come out as 

 the trotting wonder of the period, but that will not rank either of 

 them as trotting sires or add to their fame as race-horses. I shall 

 expect good results from the blood of Longfellow, and if there was 

 any use in experimenting, or an\^hing to be gained to the trotting 

 blood of this country by a resort to that of the racer, I should send 

 my Cadmus mare — the feminine countei-part of Smuggler — to Long- 

 fellow, and hope for success. 



Trustee was a stout and well-bred horse, and while he had no posi- 

 tive adaptation for trotting purposes, having stood in the section of 

 the country where he was crossed on the best road stock of the land, 

 he has left some descendants that reflect honor on his own excellence 

 as a sire, and has helped to lay valuable foundations on which well- 

 bred trotting stallions have built and will continue to build with suc- 

 cess. It is a good cross in a trotting pedigree, but the trotting 

 excellence must have some additional support besides the blood of 

 Trustee, before they can be expected to stand as an independent, 

 self-sustaining trotting family. 



While it is undoubtedly true that Trustee had not enough of the 



