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better, and made the last half-mile of the third heat in one of his 

 races in 1:06. He looks like a thoroughbred, and is the exact image 

 of the mare" Alice, by imp. Knight of St. George. He would pass well 

 for her full brother. He was a fast trotter for one season, and unsteady 

 and oif afterward. Has been ofl" the turf for several years, but it is 

 said he is now showing a liking for the fast gait again. The dam of 

 Jim Irving was by Leah's Sir William, and he was by Howard's Sir 

 Charles, by Clinton, by Sir Charles, by Sir Archy, from a mare by 

 imported Contract, a son of Catton, the sire of imported Trustee. 



In the pedigree of Melbourne we find the blood of Sampson five 

 times on his dam's side alone, and in one of these crosses it is through 

 an own sister to Mambrino. Contract, the son of Catton, the sire 

 of Trustee, is a cross well known and esteemed in England for road- 

 sters and coach horses. The " Druid," one of the best informed 

 au-^hors, says of the Cattons: "Few lines of blood have done more 

 for Yorkshire. Racing, hunting, coaching — in fact, nothing came 

 amiss to his stock." In this country we find the blood of Catton in 

 Hooton, from a mare by Catton, and Hooton gave us the dam of 

 Lula by Norman, record of 2:15, and forty- four heats in 2:30. 



It has been a.scertained that the dam of American Girl — record 

 2:16-2-, the fastest of the Bashaw and Clay families — was by imported 

 Contract, son of Catton. 



When the blood of Sampson is considered, as fully shown in Chap- 

 ter V, it will be seen that the trotting qualities of Jim Irving and his 

 sire. Young Melbourne, are fully accounted for, and that it even goes 

 further, and suggests that, after all, the blood of Trustee ma}-^ have 

 something more than a mere negative adaptation to the purposes of 

 the roadster and trotting horse. 



The trotting stallion John Nelson is generally credited to the 

 Trustee family. He is in one place, and generally, said to be by a 

 son of Trustee, but it has recently been stated that he was by Trustee, 

 the imported son of Catton. His dam was the Redmond mare, 

 dauo-hter of Abdallah, which is a sufficient fact to absorb all the credit 

 due to him as a trotting sire. He is one of some note, and has to his 

 credit Aurora, 2:27, and three heats in 2:30 or better; Gov. Stanford, 

 2:2T^, and six heats; Nemo, 2:30; and Nerea, 2:23^, and nine heats 

 in 2:30 or better. 



Scotland is a son of imp. Bonnie Scotland, one of the finest thor- 

 oughbred horses ever brought to our shores. The dam of this gelding 

 was the famous brood mare, Waterwitch, by Pilot Jr.; second dam by 



