1866 THE ROYAL GEORGES. 



consideration whether thej' are not an imjiortant and valuable branch 

 upon which to engraft the blood of Abdallah, Hambletonian and the 

 progressive trotting qualities of the New England Morgans, as found 

 in Knox, Lambert and Tao-o-art's Abdallah. 



If Almont and Thorndale have been the result of the union of the 

 Hambletonian and Mambrino Chief families, and if they present an 

 increase of speed and trotting quality in the union of the two, what 

 may we not hope and expect from uniting the blood of Administrator, 

 Cuyler, Almont, Thorndale, and Florida, Avith that of the Royal 

 George family, in its best representatives? 



Moreover, the trotting blood of Messenger, Bellfounder, Duroc, and 

 of Tippoo, has so far become naturalized by this time, and so far 

 adapted to the purposes of the trotting gait, that there will be few, if 

 any, impediments in the way of uniting and reuniting them at pleasure. 



Still further, the Royal George family has now become sufficiently 

 numerous and has passed through enough renewals of its blood to 

 possess sufficient variety to enable us to interbreed in the same blood, 

 and in this there is a probability of still further advancement. It is 

 not a very old family in our trotting lists, and one or two more genera- 

 tions may see it j^resent the champion trotters and trotting stallions of 

 this country. I do not esteem this among the improbabilities. 



Were I to give my ideas as to the method of advancing the family, 

 it would be to take the best of mares from, perhaps, the family of 

 Field's Royal George — if Byron's dam was a Harris Hambletonian, 

 his full sister or one bred in that way would fill my plans — and I 

 would send such a mare thus strong in the blood to Thomas Jefferson. 

 I think Jefferson a good sire for a promiscuous selection of mares, but 

 he will be better when bred back to his own stock. His dam, while 

 a trotter, had not trotting blood from which she could endow or estab- 

 lish a family. The strong impress came from the side of the sire, 

 and Jefferson, from a daughter of Field's horse, would produce a sire 

 that would make one of the most impressive sires we have ever seen. 

 So would Byron from a daughter of Jefferson or of Toronto Chief. 



I dismiss the family, in the belief that they present, in their success- 

 ful history and their superior combinations, elements of great interest 

 and valvic, both to the philosophical student and to the intelligent and 

 enterprising breeder. 



May their domain be still extended; may the sceptre of their 

 RoTAXTY be yet seen on many of the public courses of the continent; 

 and may the result declare that he only is Royal who has the speed to 

 win and the might to rule. 



