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be shown. He is described as a compact and handsome horse, and 

 has been a favorite wherever he has been kept. He is sire of Lady 

 Blessington, record of 2:30, and of Music 2:21|^, with twenty-three 

 heats in 2:30 or better — all I believe made in one season, soon after 

 which she was purchased by Robert Bonner, Esq. She is an elegant 

 chestnut mare, one of the finest and most beautiful animals in the 

 collection owned by Mr. Bonner, which is unequaled by any that has 

 ever been seen in the possession of one person in this country. 

 Middletown is a valuable stallion. 



LOGAK. 



This is a dark bay stallion, foaled 1854, bred by Geo. W. Connor,, 

 Orange county. New York, and taken to Muscatine, Iowa, thence 

 bought by David A. Gage, and brought to Chicago. He is owned 

 now in Indiana. His dam was by Ohio Eclipse, grandam by Post 

 Boy, the brother to Shakespeare, son of Duroc, having one or two 

 Duroc-Messenger crosses. He was a good stallion, and had he been 

 kept in good hands and received a proper class of mares, he would 

 have been successful. But the man having him in charge professed 

 to make trotters from thoroughbreds, and did not value such blood as 

 Logan possessed. Notwithstanding this, before he went into those 

 hands he produced Skinkle's Hambletonian with a record of 2:28f, 

 and Tramp, the sire of Trampoline, 2:25, and ten heats in 2:30 or 

 better. 



He showed much of the form of Hambletonian, and with good 

 mares would have left trotters. He has generally been regarded as a 

 failure. 



SEKECA CHIEF. 



This horse was foaled 1863, dam Lady Jordan, by Latourettes Bell- 

 founder; 2d dam by Walden Messenger. He is owned by Ira H. 

 Colman, Sheldrake, Seneca county, New York. He is undoubtedly an 

 excellent stallion, and is sire of some valuable animals. He is sire of 

 Schuyler, five years old, with record of 2:26, and ten heats in 2:30 or 

 better. 



WILLIE SCHEPPER. 



This is a bay stallion, foaled 1863. His dam was Nelly, by a son 

 of Vermont Blackhawk, grandam said to be by Busiris, a thorough- 

 bred. The mare Nelly was a very superior road mare, and was 

 generally known as the Turnbull mare, and was owned by Wm. 

 Tumbull, of New York, the breeder of Willie Schepper. 



