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sons are the sires of 600 in the list, and his 

 daughters are the dams of 150 in the list. The 

 difference in the vitality, the activity, of the two 

 lines is so sharp as to be painful. Mr. Jewett 

 was a man of brains and financial resources, 

 advantageously situated for breeding, but he 

 pinned his faith to the wrong horse. What 

 breeder of reputation would now dream of claim- 

 ing as a point of merit in his horse the ability to 

 trot a mile in 2.40, or talk of a five-year-old show- 

 ing a trial in 2.38 } The span of twenty years 

 is comparatively short in evolution, and yet what 

 strides have been made in that time in breeding 

 the light-harness horse! 



