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that Etlian's dam was fast. The '' trotting strain " came from another quarter 

 than the Morgans. The same is true of all tlie trotters from Hill's Black- 

 hawk. 



From tliis, liowever, it must not l)e inferred that Etlien Allen had 

 not the leverag-e conformation of a perfect trotter, as nearly as such 

 form has been possessed by any. His limbs were deficient, but the 

 relative length of the same has been pronounced by Mr. S. T. Harris, 

 a very able writer and one who knew the horse from close study, to 

 be on the most perfect model for a great trotter. His perfectioij of 

 trotting action could not have been displayed without machinery of 

 the most exact proportions, although they may have been utterly 

 unsound and deficient in other respects. His trotting actiotl will ever 

 be presented as the most perfect witnessed on any of our trotting 

 courses. 



Ethan Allen acquired great reputation for trotting with a running 

 mate, and in this way rigged was matched against Dexter, and made a 

 memorable race — making the mile in 2:15,whichatthat time was several 

 seconds faster than had ever been made by any trotting horse. His 

 record, unaided by a running mate, is 2:25^, and he has eleven heats 

 in 2:30 or better; but he is the hero of several victories with a run- 

 ning mate, a favorite achievement with him. So perfect was his trotting 

 action that it may be said he could trot as fast as any other horse 

 could pull him along. 



He was a small horse, and he bred many very small ones, and many 

 unsound ones, but with all this lack of stature and their imperfections, 

 he may be regarded as the head of a great family of fast trotters; for 

 such they are, if they have any capacity or speed whatever — the seri- 

 ous drawback to the family in many cases being a lack of ability to 

 endure training;. This is a defect that nothing;' short of the most 

 judicious selections can obviate. 



His blood was so far reinforced with that of Messenger as to cause 

 him to cross with success with the in -bred and positive mares of Mes- 

 senger blood. He has to his credit Billy Barr, 2:23f, axid sixteen 

 heats; Hotspur, 2:24, and forty-two heats; Fanny Allen, 2:28^; 

 Fanny Lee, 2:294-; Pocahontas, 2:20^; and Warwick, 2:29|. 



His son, Bacon's Ethan Allen, has I^ew Ives, 2:28; De Long's 

 Ethan Allen has Lucca, 2:30; Dixon's Ethan Allen — dam by Abdal- 

 lah; — has Sensation, 2:22^, and forty-five heats; Holabird's Ethan 

 Allen has Laura Williams, 2:244-, and Charley Mac, 2:25, and fifteen 

 heats; Holland's Ethan Allen has Barney Kelley, 2:20, and thirty- 



