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the trotters thus descended. It is not the Adballah srait. It has 

 not the elastic and springy tread of the Abdallah. They pick up 

 the hind feet squarely, folding up the members more completely than 

 in the Abdallah, and display more muscular action and vigor. The 

 grey gelding Phil Sheridan by Creeper, a Morgan, shows just such a 

 gait as Cuyler. His dam was a grey mare from Vermont, called a 

 Messenger. 



Cuyler is a valuable stallion, and will prove an excellent breeder, 

 especially in crossing with the other stock of the State in which he is 

 located. He has none of the Duroc-Messenger mould in his compo- 

 sition, hence he will be a valuable horse to cross with the descendants of 

 Mambrino Chief and the Hambletonians of the Duroc-Messeno-er 

 cross. In his form, and in his leverage and gait, he shows his descent 

 from a distinct branch of the family. It is a clear type, and one that 

 will afford an excellent opportunity for reunions of the blood of Mes- 

 senger and of Hambletonian coming through different channels. It 

 is wholly a road or trotting element. Use and employment for three 

 generations among the hillsides and valleys of Vermont have taken all 

 the gallop out of it. Sampson is himself and a trotter again. Cuyler 

 is now only ten years old, but is fast rising to fame and prominence 

 as a sire. His daughter, Lucy Cuyler, trotted over the track of Col. 

 Richard West, in 2:28-^, as a three-year-old, and Col. West stated that 

 be regarded her equal to 2:25 on the Lexington track. 



Orient made a record, as a two-year-old, of 2:38, and trotted the 

 last half of the third heat in l:15f. She was sold at public sale for 

 $2,500, and since she left the farm she has trotted over Col. West's 

 track a quarter in 36 seconds — a 2:24 gait. Friedland has been 

 regarded as her equal. He sold at the same sale for $2,150. 



Cricket trotted in 2:3G, in private, as a three-year-old. 



Mercedes trotted in private, as a three-year-old, in 2 :44|-. 



Argyle, as a two-year-old, soon after breaking, trotted in 2:53. 



The above time figures are taken from a statement of the owners , 

 but no one vpill doubt them. I will say further, on my own knowl- 

 edge, that Cuyler shows a temper as even, and a brain as level and as 

 full of force and energy, as I have ever seen in a trotting stallion. He 

 is a horse that I greatly admire, and I predict that he will maintain 

 his place among the good ones of the land as a successful trotting 

 stallion. 



