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more valued breed than bis brother aristocrat, the thoroughbred, is 

 natural. If the thoroughbred race-horse fails to develop the speed, 

 Btamiua and disposition necessary to success on the turf he is almost 

 worthless. He is a gooa racing-machine or he is nothing. But, on 

 the other hand, the trotter, even if he lacks the capacities to success 

 on the turf, is still, if bred wiselv, valuable. For the family car- 

 riage, for the park, his versatile gifts make him profitable, even 

 though he fails on the turf. Very seldom has a better test of the 

 relative value of trotting and running (or thoroughbred) horses been 

 offered than in October, 1886, when two great breeding-studs, one of 

 thoroughbred and the other of trotting-horses, were dispersed under 

 the hammer. At Louisville, Kentucky, the late John C. McFerran 

 had founded and established the Glenview Stud, which rose to the 

 front rank of "nurseries of trotters," At Jobstown, Xew Jersey, 

 Mr. Pierre Lorillard's Rancocas Stud of thoroughbreds, the choicest 

 in the land, is situated. Dispersal sales were held of these famous 

 collections within a few days of each other, and the following 

 averages were realized: 



RANCOCAS THOROUGHBREDS. 



Average for stallions $6,390.00 



Average for brood-mares 1.422.27 



Grand average for stallions and brood-mares. . . $1,721.62 



GLENVIEW TROTTERS. 



Average for stallions $12,780.00 



Average for brood-mares 1,678.00 



Grand average for stallions and brood-mares. . . $2,238.75 



This was a fair test in 1886, but it does not represent the monetary 

 supremacy of the trotter now, for it is an absolutely safe assertion to 

 make that the value of choice trotting-blood has appreciated twenty- 

 five per cent, in the past three years. A trotting-stallion, Axtell, has 

 sold for $103,000; Bell Boy sold at auction for $51,000, and Stambou) 

 at private sale for $50,000. These prices for trotting-stallions repre- 

 sent the highest values ever reached by horses of any type in America. 



In this sketch the writer has avoided minute treatment of either 

 families or individual horses, or, indeed, any of the details of the 

 subject, his purpose being merely to sketch in a general way, the 

 foundation, evolution, and progress of the trotting-bred horse. 



Leslie E, Macleod. 



