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of getting a high class trotter are good. I do not claim 

 that you can get trotters as uniformly this wny as b}^ 

 breeding from trotting mares, but you can, \Yith the 

 properly mated sire and dam, get horses of high class 

 by this line of breeding horses, of great finish and 

 hard, fine qualit}^ AYe have, I think, demonstrated 

 at Palo Alto that some horses at least can control the 

 action of the thoroughbred, and where that can be 

 done I have no hesitation in declaring my preference 

 for a good dash of thoroughbred blood. 



I endeavor to regard all such matters without preju- 

 dice. I have no quarrel with trotting blood, nor have 

 I anv fault to find with breeders who stick to trottinir 

 blood. But all candid men must admit that trotters 

 come from all combinations, that there are more ways 

 than one to breed them. I have no desire to argue 

 that one way is better than another — I only insist that 

 we have shown that high-class trotters can he bred 

 with close and direct infusions of thoroughbred blood. 

 I do not advise any breeder to sell his trotting-bred 

 mares and buy half-bred or thoroughbred mares, nor 

 do I advise him to patronize a stallion simply because 

 he has thoroughbred blood. But what I do advise is, 

 that when 3^ou find a good horse or a good mare, a 

 horse that is a trotter, or a mare that is a producer, 

 that has plenty of thoroughbred blood, do not let that 

 scare you away from them, but rather value them the 

 higher for it. My idea is to recognize merit wherever 

 you see it, and when a stallion trots in 2: 12 J, or even 

 2:20, you need not fear that his thoroughbred blood 

 will stop his progeny from trotting. 



But, as I have said, it is no part of my business to 



