362 THE KOYAL GEORGES. 



one hundred and sixty-five heats in 2:30 or better; and, in addition, 

 this family being one in. large part originating beyond our own 

 borders, renders it most probable that several representatives of the 

 family are included in the list from sires unknown. 



In addition to the above, I have found a list as follows, but with no 

 means to verify it: 



Field's Royal George, 2:25f; Woodruff's Royal George, 2:26; 

 Royal John, 2:26^; Rapid, 2:27^; Gen. Love, 2:30. 



These, if record performers, should be added to the above list. 



The one strikins: fact of this record is the nvimber of heats in the 

 vicinity of 2:25 to 2:27. To what family of like age and of equal 

 number elsewhere can we point for a record that will compare with 

 this, for uniformity and excellence? Taken in connection with the 

 fact that they only at a comparatively recent period crossed, or perhaps 

 recrossed our border, it is eminently suggestive that there is yet much 

 to look for in the future of the family. 



The Royal Georges seem to have been best known and most abun- 

 dant about Buffalo and Niagara Falls, on both sides of the river. 



The characteristics of the family are of a positive and clearly 

 marked kind, and it must be confessed they bear a strong resemblance 

 to the Duroc-Messenger family. 



The qualities by which they are distinguished are easily delineated. 

 They are large and very powerful horses. They are a family that, at 

 an early age, display the great qualities for which they are distin- 

 guished all through life. They are ready and free drivers, courageous 

 and full of game to the last, and possess the royal trotting quality 

 which we have seen displayed in such eminent degree by the Duroc- 

 Messengers. 



They display a gait that is not exactly the same, but very nearly 

 akin to it; suggesting that in its oi'igin and growth it was in large 

 ])art influenced by an agency similar to that which shapes and 

 controls in the Duroc-Messenger. 



They have their point of divergence — they are not marked by the 

 same tendency to infirmities that follows the Duroc blood, and this 

 to my mind suggests, that in their points of similarity they had a 

 common origin, and in this divergent point they owe their difference 

 in character to the fact that they have also in part come through 

 different channels. 



The summary of all which, in plain terms, is this, that to my mind 

 the evidences point very strongly to the fact that through Tippoo 



