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out the slightest friction. He seems to roll along 

 without effort, right on top of his gait as if it were a 

 wheel, and when he increases his speed to its utmost 

 limit there is no sprawling, spreading, or striking a 

 certain position, but just a gradual, smooth increase 

 after the manner, as I have said of Elaine, of a w^heel 

 gathering speed from its own momentum. He has a 

 splendid head— both as to its beauty and as to the 

 qualit}^ of brain — and this, in addition to his compact, 

 muscular make-up, his pure action and his great blood, 

 should make St. Bel a successful sire. I shall expect 

 to see him prove like Electioneer in power to get 

 trotters out of thoroughbred mares, or, indeed, out of 

 almost any kind of a mare, w^hile from choice se- 

 lected mares his colts should be sensational young 

 trotters. 



