212 Tbe Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



I cannot accept the conclusion that Seely's 

 American Star was the son of an inbred Morgan. 

 If like produces like, a low-headed and long- 

 gaited type could not come from an up-headed 

 and short-gaited type." Mr. Bonner, whose mind 

 was intensely logical, was impressed, and he 

 remarked, " Peerless and all the best Stars that 

 I ever knew had the thoroughbred form, just a 

 form that we would expect from a horse of the 

 recorded breeding of Seely's American Star." 



I remember an afternoon at Glen Lea, the 

 country seat of William Crawford, in Orange 

 County, when that able lawyer and distinguished 

 statesman, General Benjamin F. Tracy, went 

 through the story of Mr. Battell and tore it to 

 tatters. Seely's American Star was not much 

 appreciated when he entered the stud, and all 

 kinds of mares were bred to him at a nominal 

 fee. In i860 he got but ten colts, and that fall 

 Mr. Seely gave him to Theodore Dusenbury, 

 whose property he died in February, 1861. He 

 stamped his offspring with his form, resolution, 

 gait, and disposition, and contributed much to 

 the success of Rysdyk's Hambletonian. Only 

 four of his get — Widow Machree, 2.29; Bolly 

 Lewis, 2.29I; Newburgh, 2.30; and Lady Whit- 



