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formance seemed so good that they took him to anotlier track which 

 was fast and firm, and he trotted seven-eighths of a mile, the length 

 of the track, in 2:11^, being at the rate of 2:28 to the mile. He is a 

 bay stallion fifteen and three-quarters hands. Had the performance 

 been made over Buffalo Park, he would not be classed as second ta 

 any of the four-year-olds of 1877. Another of his get, Clifford G.^ 

 trotted a half mile, the first time to a sulky, at Waverly Park, New 

 Jersey, last fall, in 1:24; and the bay colt, Horace F. Jones, also by him, 

 was taken up from pasture last fall, shod and brought to a track, won 

 a heat in 3:06, and had never been driven enough to break him to 

 harness. Amons: the noted mares that were stinted to him last season 

 were: Gazelle, record 2:21; Lady Larkin (dam of Lady Varick and 

 Happy Traveller); Madge Golddust by Golddust Jr., and the dam of 

 Belle of Otsego. 



" We were at Mount Wellington Stock Farm last fall, and a close 

 scrutiny of the youngsters left us with no other impression than that 

 here was a great young sire. But even before we looked over his get, 

 we expected to see just what we did; for his high breeding and deep 

 dipping into the prized Messenger blood, having but two outcrosses, 

 that of Bellfounder and Cassius M. Clay (both good enough for the 

 most fastidious), gives the converts to the Messenger theory a strong- 

 point for argument, when they glance at the breeding of this stallion, 

 and calculate the chances of his success as a stock-getter, for it seem& 

 as if he must get trotters by the operation of the natural law of repro- 

 duction — like producing like; and so far the results have been marvel- 

 ous under none too favorable conditions. He has good size, plenty of 

 substance, is full of quality all over, can speed fast, is a perfect-tem- 

 pered horse, and is bred to the Queen's taste. If anything more than 

 this can be asked, it is for him to produce trotters; and this he is doing- 

 as fast as possible." 



I sincerely regret that I have not seen the horse, as I am quite sure 

 he would furnish some points worthy of very close consideration and 

 careful study. The characteristics of this horse as they would appear 

 from his breeding — not having seen him — are easily delineated. The 

 pedigree is one of the strongest in Messenger blood. The blood of 

 Messenger in the composition of Hambletonian would be so far rein- 

 forced in the dam of this horse as to make him one of the strongest 

 and closest in that blood anywhere to be found. 



The dam Nellie Cammeyei, was by Cassius M. Clay, a horse of 

 Messenger descent; second dam by Chancellor, son of Mambrinoj 



