88 RACING BLOOD IN TUE TROTTER. 



a son of St. Lawrence. This mare, the clam of Scotland, was also the 

 clam of Manibrino Gift, one of the greatest trotters that has appeared 

 on our tiy-f. Scotland has a record of 3:22^, and sixteen heats in 

 2:30 or better. 



Belmont, a thoroughbred son of American Boy, is credited as being 

 the sia-e of Venture; his dam is unknown. He has a record of 2:27f, 

 and four heats in 2:30 or better. His pedigree and origin are not 

 very well authenticated. Moreover, this same i^merican Boy is 

 credited with being the sire of the trotter of early fame, called 

 Awful. He was in his day a trotter of distinction. The sire and dam 

 of American Boy were both by imported Expedition. 



The trotting mare Tennessee was by a thoroughbred. Commodore, 

 a son of Boston. Her dam was by Vermont Blackhawk, grandam 

 said to be a mare of double Messenger blood, of great speed and en- 

 durance. If such was the character of the dam, the character of the 

 mare Tennessee is easily accounted for. She made a record of 2:27, 

 and three heats in 2:30 or better. 



The very excellent trotting mare Jenny is credited to Red Eagle, 

 a son of Grey Eagle, the great competitor of Wagner, and the pride 

 of all Kentucky. Her dam was Topsey Reamy, by Pataskala, a son 

 of Boston. Here was a mare whose sire was very nearly a thorough- 

 bred — a son of a thoroughbred, at any rate — ^and her dam was by a 

 thoroughbred, yet she was a trotter of great superiority and distinc- 

 tion. She attained a record of 2:22-^, and eighteen heats in 2:30 or 

 better. Her sire Red Eagle also produced Daniel the Prophet, with 

 a record of 2:27, and three heats in 2:30 or better. 



This Grev Eagle blood was one of great excellence for trotting 

 purjDOses, which may be due to the fact that Grey Eagle was by 

 "Woodpecker, son of Bertrand, and the grandam of Bertrand was by 

 Mambrino, the sire of imported Messenger, of whom a full account 

 will be given in Chapter V. The Grey Eagle cross in the dams of 

 trotters is regarded as one of the best of all thoroughbred crosses. 



Chenery's Grey Eagle was a horse about which there exists great 

 doubt and uncertainty; but there can be little or no doubt as to his 

 being a son of Grey Eagle. It has been claimed that his dam was a 

 thoroughbred, by imported Glencoe, grandam by American Eclipse; 

 but the whole matter is involved in uncertainty. Mr. O. B. Gould, 

 of Sciota county, Ohio, a breeder of excellent horses, and a man of 

 well-known character and reputation in all parts of the country, as- 

 serts that he bred the horse; that the business was managed by one 



