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that appeared in the public journals. She was a mare of wonderful 

 game and bottom. She could not trot a mile in better than 2:35, per- 

 haps, but she could go through a ten -mile race and come out in the 

 best of style. 



She was also owned by W. B. Smith, of Hartford, Conn., the owner 

 of the stallion Thomas Jefferson. This horse is sometimes called 

 *' Black Whirlwind." He has been on the turf for several years, and 

 has trotted against Joe Brown, Pilot Temple, Smuggler, Mambrino 

 Gift, Phil Sheridan, Commonwealth, Myron Perry, George Wilkes, 

 Harry W. Genet, and many of the most famous trotters of our day. 

 He has distanced Smuggler, Pilot Temple and Joe Brown. He has a 

 record of 2:235-, and thirty -nine heats in 2:30 or better. 



He trotted four races in 1869, and won two of them. In 1870 he 

 trotted fourteen races, and won twelve. In 1871 he trotted nine races, 

 and won five. In three years he trotted twenty-seven races, and 

 won nineteen, and over nine thousand dollars in money, and was in 

 the stud to some extent all of those years. 



His own achievements have been sufficient to confer distinction on 

 his family. I have not the means at hand to enable me to give the 

 number of races he has trotted, but there are few horses on the turf 

 that have equaled the number. 



Moreover, he was an early trotter, and this to some degree is a 

 characteristic of the Royal George family. He trotted as a two-year- 

 old in 3:24; at three years, in 2:48; at four years, in 2:36; at six, in 

 2:33; at seven, in 2:29f ; at eight, two heats, in 2:25|^. 



The above performances were record races, and it gave clear assur- 

 ance that such was his capacity. This is another proof of consan- 

 guinity in the same blood whence Duroc came. 



Thomas Jefferson has a son called Thomas Jefferson Jr., that trotted 

 races, and won as a three-year-old, in 2:50^, 2:46:^, 2:39f, 2:44. These 

 were trotted in the spring of the year. 

 ■ Few stallions can show such a record. 



Thomas Jefferson is a black horse, with a small star, but is not quite 

 so large as his family usually run. He stands fifteen hands one inch 

 high, and is one-half inch higher behind. He is a very powerful 

 horse, strong in every part. He is an impressive sire — a trait that 

 follows the Royal George family of stallions. His colts produced by 

 him when he was three years old, show the high trotting character of 

 the family quite as positively as those produced in later years. I 

 regret that I have not a list of his sons. 



