150 ORIGINAL SOURCES OF TROTTING BLOOD. 



on the ice. He trotted and won, against the stallion Rhode Island, a 

 race of six heats. He also trotted and won a race against Cardinal, 

 of two heats for three miles each, winning each heat — record 8:07^, 

 to wagons. The calendar shows that he trotted something like forty 

 heats in races which he won during the period he was on the turf. 

 This does not include the heats in races which he lost- — if there were 

 any such. He has one son of the same name that has a record of 

 2:32, The grandam of Mambrino Gift was by one of his sons, and 

 it is generally regarded that St. Lawrence mares — one of his daugh- 

 ters or those of his blood — are of the best of brood mares. They 

 seem to produce trotters with a degree of certainty that is truly 

 worthy of consideration. 



The fact has become so clear that in some parts of our country 

 the Messenger blood has been in-bred too closely, and the need of a 

 suitable outcross of high trotting quality having become ajsparent in 

 many instances, such a blood as that of St. Lawrence affords for all 

 such, one of the most valuable strains with which to interbreed. Many 

 very valuable mares now exist, that are so closely and strongly in-bred 

 in the Messenger blood, that their value as breeding stock mainly 

 depends on the obtaining of a suitable outcross to invigorate the bloody 

 and maintain the trotting excellence for which it has been noted. 

 For all such, the male descendants of St. La%vrence will afford the 

 desired cross, and the union will in all probability result, as did that of 

 Bellfounder in the Hambletonian, in the further advancement of the 

 American trotter. 



OTHER SOURCES OF TROTTIXG BLOOD. 



It has been supposed that the Bashaw family, from v>'hence the large 

 and respectable family of Clays have descended, was an original source 

 of trotting blood. Their claims to such distinction will be considered 

 in the chapter on Bashaws and Clays. 



The now very large and popular family descended from Pilot, the 

 Canadian pacer, will also receive full and separate consideration in 

 the chapter devoted to them and the other Canadians worthy of notice, 

 in connection with our roadster families. 



The Morgan family, including all descendants in the male line of 

 Justin Morgan, however they may have descended, on the dam's side, 

 will also receive separate consideration in a subsec^uent chapter. 



