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Hickory is a bay stallion, foaled in 18G9, by Goldsmith's Abdallah, 

 dam Dollabella, by the son of Hungerford's Blucher, above named; 

 iiecond dam by Farmer's Glory, a Canadian; was bred by Richard 

 Richards, of Racine, Wis., and is owned by Geo. D. Doubleday, of 

 Whitewater, Wis. He has a record of 2:30, and has trotted in 2:26. 

 He is a good sire. 



DAUGHTERS OF VOLUNTEER. 



Several of the daughters of Volunteer have been distinguished for 

 speed on the trotting turf. One of them has produced the stallion 

 Florida, which will form the subject of a separate sketch, and will not 

 be noticed further in this chapter. 



From another daughter Hambletonian has left us the young stallion 

 Metropolitan, the second dam being the dam of Dexter, a daughter 

 of American Star, and the third dam being the McKinstry mare, the 

 dam of Shark, another distinguished son of Hambletonian. This 

 horse now just entering on his career as a stallion will be looked to 

 with much interest on account of the distinguished excellence of so 

 many so nearly related and in the same immediate line of kinship. He 

 should certainly display very high quality as a member of the Hamble- 

 tonian family. And if the combination should fail to make him a great 

 reproducer, it will present an enigma for the philosophical that will call 

 for an exj^lanatiou. 



