148 ORIGINAL S0URCE3 OF TROTTING BLOOD. 



Prendergast, and sold to Joseph Hall, of Rochester, New York. He 

 was foaled about 1841, and was seven years old when he came to the 

 State of New York. He became somewhat distinguished on the trot- 

 ting turf, and was purchased by Mr. D. A. January, of St. Loxiis, 

 Missouri, and was kept there from 1853 until 1857, when he was re- 

 sold and removed to Rochester, and from thence to Kalamazoo, Mich- 

 igan, where he died in 1858. 



He was a bay horse, about fifteen and a half hands high, and left 

 numerous descendants for the short time he was in the States, his 

 evident good blood and superior ability as a trotter making him very 

 popular. He stood for two seasons at St. Louis at $200 — at that time 

 the largest price asked for the services of any trotting stallion in the 

 United States. 



All of his descendants are marked by a peculiarity of gait that is 

 precisely like that of the original St. Lawrence. They gently sway 

 their hindquarters from side to side as they advance successively each 

 hind foot. They do not lift the hock high, but trail the hind foot out 

 far behind them, having a very long reach from hip to hock, and a 

 most superb thigh and gaskin — one of the largest and strongest ever 

 seen on a trotter. They have a hock that is perfection in itself. No 

 trotter surpasses them in this part of their conformation. Their front 

 conformation is as perfect as that behind. They lift the feet fairly, 

 bend the knees slightly, and trot with a rolling but far-reaching, and 

 never with a hard-pounding or violent action, that is indicative of 

 great power and ease. They trot so evenly front and rear, and with 

 so much power, that, whether coming toward you or going from you, 

 they seem like the even and steady rolling of a great wheel ; their 

 force and momentum is great beyond description. It is a gait with 

 which I am quite familiar, having a first-class opportunity of studying 

 it in my own stallion. Argonaut, whose dam was by Toronto, a son of 

 St. Lawrence. A gentleman who was a great admirer of St. Law- 

 rence, and who is a horseman of very accurate discernment, says that 

 he sees the St. Lawrence gait in perfection in Argonaut. I may here 

 not inappropriately say that, without any regular or professional 

 training, he is a stallion that could at five years of age trot a mile 

 in 2:30. 



The form and gait of the family have been everywhere highly 

 esteemed. 



The editor of the Trotting Begister^ in his first volume, says of old 

 St. Lawi'ence: 



