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mares that have produced two or more trotters 

 with records of 2.30 or better, or two or more 

 pacers with records of 2.25 or better, or one 

 trotter with a record of 2.30 or better, or one 

 pacer with record of 2.25 or better, are admitted ; 

 also mares that have produced one 2.30 trotter, 

 or one 2.25 pacer, and another son or daughter 

 that has sired or produced a 2.30 trotter or a 2.25 

 pacer. When over 4000 mares are qualified un- 

 der these rules, it is time for another forward step. 

 The rules were all right in the beginning, but 

 we have grown away from them. 



When Hon. Hugh J. Jewett came to New 

 York to accept the presidency of the Erie Rail- 

 road, which at that time stood in need of wise 

 and conservative management, he left in charge 

 of Fair Oaks, the breeding farm at Zanesville, 

 Ohio, his son, George M. Jewett, w^ho was fond 

 of the life of a gentleman farmer. Fair Oaks 

 w^as a delightful place to visit, and I cherish 

 sweet recollections of it. I have before me the 

 catalogue of 1883, and under Duke of Bruns- 

 wick, bay horse, foaled in 1864, by Rysdyk's 

 Hambletonian, dam Madame Loomer by War- 

 rior, second dam an English-bred mare, I find 

 this note: "Duke of Brunswick has won races 



