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Tice. This was a performance well worthy the two great trotting 

 bloods from which he comes. 



It must not be inferred or understood from this that he has under- 

 gone any special training for the purposes of speed. The marked 

 improvement in the horse has been simply the result of good care — 

 perhaps as good as any horse could have — and regular exercise, with 

 •such practice at the trotting gait as could be secured for a stallion 

 doing so large a service as has fallen to his fortune since he went to 

 his present home in Kentucky. It is one of the features of the Duroc 

 blood in some compositions that it can not endure the amount of work 

 necessary to bring it to the highest mark of superiority in perform- 

 ance. But this is not the case with Administrator. His strains of 

 that blood are so remote and so interwoven with those that are always 

 ready for hard visage that he revels in constant and severe use. That 

 this excellence will also distinguish his produce is now made certain 

 by the successful performance of such as have attained age enough 

 to appear in public contests on the road or track. 



Although his career in the stud has been a brief and an interrupted 

 one, the first fruits are beginning to appear, and give not only ample 

 but superabundant proofs of his great superiority as a sire, and stamp 

 him as the great Duroc-Messenger-Bellfounder stallion of this gener- 

 ation. Should his career close to-day, the verdict of the next quarter 

 of a century would be that he was a great stallion. 



His stock are almost uniformly bays and browns, with an. occasional 

 grey. The following extract may be taken as authoritative in regard 

 to some of the full-aged produce of this horse: 



Administrator was taken to Kentucky, and made his first season there in 

 1874, previous to which he had been kept in the mountainous regions of 

 Ulster county, N. Y., where there is but little stock bred, except for farm use, 

 and hence he was but little known, and had no access to well-bred mares, and 

 but few of any kind. His colts are, therefore, limited in number ; but, never- 

 theless, the few that have been trained have all shown themselves very speedy. 

 Previous to 1874, the only one of his get that had ever been trained was Inez. 

 She, as a five-year-old, made a trial at Fleetwood in 2 :31, when she was sold, 

 and has since been kept for road use. Waldeu Maid was placed in training 

 in the spring of 1874, and in May of the same year won the 2 :50 purse at 

 Fleetwood Park, making a record of 2 -.So^C Saul was trained for a short 

 time the same season, and, at Poughkeepsie, made a record, in the four-year-old 

 purse, of 2:461-2. He was in training again, the past season, for about two 

 months, and was driven a trial, timed by several persons, in 2 :33;'4', which was 

 improved upon a few days later, making his mile upon the Poughkeepsie 

 track in 2:28. He won the five-year-old purse given by the Hudson River 



