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American Trotting- Families and great Roadster Stallions, with what 

 propriety may I refer to the cons})icuous position and eminent dis- 

 tinction maintained by those of the Duroc-Messenger class. Their 

 character so clearly marked, their physical conformation, their psy- 

 chological organism, their universal breeding qualities, and their 

 unrivaled trotting excellence, all combining to place them in the most 

 pre-eminent distinction as a family of trotters of world-wide celebrity. 

 And such a list as they present in Administrator, Almont, Abdallah 

 Chief, Alhambra, Blackwood, Daniel Lambert, Florida, and probably 

 Golddust, Gov. S])rague, Idol, Lysander, Mambrino Chief, Mambrino 

 Patchen, Magna Charta, Messenger Duroc, Morgan Eagle, Rhode Island, 

 Stephen A. Douglas, Swigert, the Star family in so great numbers, 

 and Volunteer — how long is the list and how great is their renown, 

 all displaying traits and qualities distinctly traceable to the matchless 

 union of two great families. 



And this brings me with a very appropriate suggestion to the close 

 of these chapters. We have uniformly found that great qualities 

 did not come by accident. Their origin may not have been known 

 or clearly understood, but science, reason, common sense, and the 

 most profound philosophy lay at the foundation of all acquired or 

 transmitted excellences. Breeding is a science, and while great 

 results may have come by ways not marked and outlined by clearly 

 understood methods, the result has been achieved in spite of the lack 

 of knowledge, and not as the fruit of ignorance or because intelligent 

 action was not the highway of success. 



