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bred. John Morgan trotted to a record of 2:24, and made six heats in 

 2:30. I now recall no trotter from a thoroughbred mare his equal. 

 But the greatness of Pilot Jr. had still a greater measure. His son 

 Tattler places him on a plane never yet reached by another trotting 

 stallion. 



The dam of Tattler was a strictly thoroughbred mare. She was 

 Telltale, by Telamon, a thoroughbred son of Medoc, dam Flea, by 

 Medoc ; second dam Martha Darneal, by Sumter ; Arminda, by 

 Doublehead; Dux, by imp. Buzzard; by Columbus; by Wildair; by 

 Mark Anthony; by Partner ; by imp. Traveller ; by imp. Jolly 

 Roger. 



I set out the pedigree in full, as it is an instance which has no 

 parallel in our breeding annals. From such a mare Pilot Jr. produced 

 Tattler, a dark bay stallion, of even but powerful build, smooth and 

 clean cut, and looking very much like Alhambra when the latter was 

 ^ight years old. 



Tattler is owned by H. N. Smith, Esq., at the Fashion Stud Farm, 

 Trenton, New Jersey. He has a public record of 2:26, and is the sire 

 of a stallion and a trotter which to-day stands in the list of the cham- 

 pions of the American trotting turf. Such another trotting stallion 

 from a thoroughbred mare we have not yet produced. He shows all 

 the strength and quality of the thoroughbred — has the strong trotting 

 character and form of Pilot Jr., and trotting action nowhere sur- 

 passed. Such is Tattler. He is the sire of Indianapolis, record 2:31;^, 

 and a private trial, 2:25. 



VOLTAIRE. 



This is a stallion worthy of a place and a sketch among the first 

 of his race and the ao-e in which he lives. 



He is owned by Wm. H. Peck, Esq., of Hartford, Connecticut, a 

 gentleman vrhom I first met on Kentucky soil, and one whom it is a 

 delight and an honor to meet anywhere. I find a sketch of Voltaire 

 in a public print, which, with slight change, I here reproduce as 

 part of my notice of this now justly celebrated stallion: 



Voltaire is a ten-year-old dark bay stallion, by Tattler; dam Young Portia, 

 \)j Mambrino Chief; second dam by Roebuck; third dam by Whip. He is a 

 very dark bay, with no white ; stands fifteen and a half hands high, a horse 

 of great substance for his inches, weighing nearly one thousand ou'e hundred 

 pounds, in good road condition. He is upheaded, goes in great style, and is a 

 hard one to whip in any class. Starting in June, without a record, he met and 

 defeated some of the best horses on the turf, winning six successive victories, 



