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forward reach of the hind foot, their great and powerful bodies and 

 frames advancing with wonderful force and energy. He never was 

 trained for speed, but had enough to beat State of Maine, He left 

 many trotters and roadsters strongly and distinctively marked in 

 type like himself. 



TOEONTO CHIEF. 



One of the earliest sons of Royal George, was Toronto Chief, foaled 

 1851, while Royal George was in Canada, in the vicinity of London. 

 He was a brown horse, his dam a small brown mare by Blackwood, 

 a son of the original Blackwood, also called Coeur-de-Lion, a horse 

 and a name very familiar in the vicinity of London, Canada West. 



Toronto Chief was bred by George Larue, of Middlesex county, 

 Ontario, and after several transfers was finally owned by Alexander 

 Bathgate, of Westchester county. New York. He was a successful 

 sire and a trotter of distinction. He proved his trotting qualities by 

 his public record, his best race being on Fashion Course, in October, 

 1865, under saddle, when he beat Commodore Vanderbilt in three 

 straight heats, in 2:25^, 2:24f, 2:24^. He was the first horse that ever 

 trotted a half mile in 1:08-2-. 



He is the sire of Rapid and Soubrette, and he produced Toronto 

 Chief Jr., a brown horse — dam by Royal George. 



He also produced Toronto, a brown horse, foaled 1861. His dam 

 was Mealymouth, a mare of unknown blood. 



He produced Toronto Sontag, or Genl. Wooster, from old Sontag 

 by Harris' Hambletonian. He was foaled in 1859, and was owned in 

 Connecticut. 



THOMAS JEFFERSON. 



His most distinguished son is Thomas Jefferson, one of the first 

 trotting stallions of our day. He was foaled in 1863, and his dam was 

 the celebrated mare Gipsy Queen, by Wagner, her dam by imported 

 Glencoe. This is the pedigree given, although it is involved in much 

 doubt. 



She was bred in Tennessee, and was at one time owned and driven 

 by Alfred Spink, a well known Chicago gentleman. 



She commenced her trotting career at Chicago, in 1856, when she 

 trotted mile heats and was beaten by the chestnut gelding, Henry 

 Clay, and some days after she won a ten-mile race in 31:05, beating 

 Olive Rose. She trotted mile heats in 2:44, and trotted a dead head 

 with Capt. McGowan, of ten miles in 28:39, according to a statement 



