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Cuyler, owned by Eobert Bonner, and she is credited 

 with having gone a mile in 2:15|^ — privately. Xorval 

 was worked young and was one of our fastest colt- 

 trotters. I have driven him quarters close to 0:33, 

 and in his two-year-old form he was almost as fast as 

 Palo Alto. But he went wrong- in a leo^, and we 

 decided to give him a long rest. In the fall of ISSS he 

 began to round to, and was then sold to Colonel Robert 

 P. Pepper, of Frankfort, Kentucky. Good fortune fol- 

 lowed him, and in Colonel Pepper's hands he trained on 

 so well that last summer he took a record of 2:1 TJ. 

 He is one of the most magnificent sons of Electioneer 

 in form, in quality, in action, and indeed in every par- 

 ticular, and in him Colonel Pepper has a horse that I 

 believe will prove one of the greatest sires in Kentucky. 

 "With a sire and dam whose average record is 2:18f, 

 and both splendid individuals and richly bred, JS'orlaine 

 had the right to be a trotter. 



I have already referred in several places to the 

 famous gray mare, Sallie Benton, but have given no 

 sJxetch of her, and, though it is a little out of the 

 chronological order, we may without impropriety pay- 

 due tribute to her at this place. She is a gray mare 

 of racy and good form, and was got by Gen. Benton, 

 out of Sontag Mohawk, a daughter of "Mohawk Chief. 

 I worked her considerably in her two-year-old form, 

 and as a three-year-old she, besides having a walk-over, 

 won two good races, taking a record of 2:30. We 

 worked her through the following winter, until the 

 death of Leland Stanford, Jr., when all work was 

 stopped and she ran out nearly all summer. In Sep- 

 tember, at Cleveland, Ohio, the Glenview mare Elvira 



