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A brown colt, called Gilt Edge, by Administrator, was sold Oct., 

 1874, and is owned by John T. Foote, of Norristown, N. J., that will 

 be likely to be known. He was a superior colt, and his dam was 

 •Preceptress, by Strader's C. M. Clay Jr.; second dam was by Ber- 

 trand. From the known excellence of the dam and the unusually 

 promising appearance of the colt when young, I predict for him the 

 distinction of beins: both a trotter and a stallion of distinction. His 

 owner has the satisfaction of knowing that he became such by outbid- 

 ding an humble admirer of the young stallion. 



Executor, a brown colt, was another colt of the same year that 

 showed great promise. His dam was Valley Rose, by Idol, son of 

 Mambrino Chief. 



Another colt, the dam of which was Quadroon, by Young Mam- 

 brino, son of Mambrino Chief, is located at Vinton, Iowa, and was a 

 good colt. 



Le Grand, a bay colt, now three years old, sold for $1,500 to 

 Messrs. Polk, of Columbia, Tenn., was from a Mambrino Chief mare. 

 Another, called Superior, now three years old, is in Montana, a large 

 and finely gaited colt. 



The excellence of Administrator as a sire thus early indicated, and 

 the appearance of these colts at an early age, will cause them to be 

 looked to with interest, as the first fruits of a stud career that now 

 creates in the minds of those who are good judges the impression 

 that this stallion will display an eminence not often attained. 



