330 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



dollars. At Lancaster is Maplehurst Farm, Colo- 

 nel John E. Thayer, the home of Baron Wilkes. 

 At Great Barrington are Forkhurst Farm, Charles 

 H. Kerner, and Locustwood, Colonel William 

 L. Brown. The great Dreamwold Farm of 

 Thomas W. Lawson is at Scituate. At Read- 

 ville is Forbes Farm, the home of Arion, Bingen, 

 and Nancy Hanks. H. S. Russell, Elizur Smith, 

 George B. Inches, C. C. Mayberry, Charles 

 Whittemore, and C. W. Lasell stand high on 

 the roster of Massachusetts breeders. 



Death treads closely on the heels of Time, and 

 the breeding situation is constantly changing; 

 but the trotting horse will live until the Union is 

 broken into fragments or good roads are wrecked 

 by a convulsion of nature or of sentiment. 



The question of how to breed successfully 

 is an important one, and the reader, I am 

 sure, will thank me for introducing the views of 

 a man of large experience. The appended letter 

 was written to me from Boston, under date of 

 September 22, 1903: — 



" It seems to me that in the Eastern states, 

 at least, where it is so expensive to raise horses 

 to the age at which they can be useful for racing 



