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them. She has been timed a, full mile in fast time, and she is improv- 

 ing. Pioneer, four years old, out of the dam of Enigma, is gifted 

 with a great deal of speed, ami will make his mark. So also will 

 Buccaneer, out of Enigma (4 years), and also will Briareus, a double in- 

 bred Hambletonian and Mambrino. Havoc, Leiladale, Dorabella, 

 Clay dale, and a host of others, give every indication of being trotters. 

 Olendora, Everdale and Botheration are all speedy and can show a 

 forty gait, and with handling will trot low in the thirties this season. 



Hero, oi Thorndale, whose dam was Heroine (full sister to Volun- 

 teer and Sentinel), second dam Lady Patriot, is in Kentucky, doing 

 service as a stallion. He was owned by the late F. P. Kinkead. 



Thorndale Jr. and Daisydale are brother and sister. Dam Daisy, 

 by Burr's Washington, son of Burr's Napoleon, by Young Mam- 

 brino; second dain by Abdallah; third dam by Engineer. 



The above colts of Thorndale will be watched with interest by all 

 lovers of good horses. 



ALiSrONT. 



We now reach for consideration one of the most remarkable trot- 

 ting sires this country has yet produced — a princely son of a royal sire, 

 and worthy of a place in a household of kings and queens. Almont 

 was bred at "Woodburn Farm," the home of Alexander's Abdallah, 

 either by Mr. Alexander or Mr. D. Swigert- — at that time the superin- 

 tendent — and was foaled in 18G4, and sold by Mr. Swigert, when four 

 years old, to Col. Richard West, of Scott county, Kentucky. His dam 

 was by Mambrino Chief; 2d dam by Pilot Jr.; and 3d dam, a very 

 highly bred mare owned by Wm. H. Pope, of Louisville, Kentucky. 

 For the latter mare no pedigree was given, but she was one of those 

 very highly bred animals whose blood being unknown was often 

 claimed for thoroughbred — and while, perhaps, not entitled to that 

 rank, was nevertheless one of the best possible selections on which to 

 start a structure composed of the best of trotting bloods, and to 

 •culminate in a trotting sire of rare distinction and enduring fame. 

 The next link in the chain is that of Pilot Jr., and he by the Canadian 

 pacer Pilot, from a mare having much the same claims to high blood 

 as the one above referred to. This Pilot Jr. cross, which will receive 

 further attention during the progress of these chapters, was one that 

 had the happy and very fertile faculty of fusing and harmonizing well 

 and readily with any trotting or even racing blood, and giving the 

 product a ready tendency to the trotting gait, and at the same time 



