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or for fast driving on the road, the key of the 

 breeding problem is to have a few really good 

 mares rather than a large number of less value. 

 In other words, if I intended to invest ten thou- 

 sand dollars in brood mares I would consider it 

 a safer investment, with less chances of failure, to 

 buy five mares worth two thousand apiece, than 

 to buy twenty mares worth five hundred. But 

 one must be a very good judge to be sure you 

 get your value in the five mares. Before starting 

 a trotting stud of my own, I had seen many 

 failures by others, because breeding and speed 

 were not sufficiently valued and sought after in 

 sire and dam. I chose Arion because of his 

 phenomenal speed ; he had recently trotted as 

 a two-year-old in 2.1 of to a high-wheel sulky 

 with no ball bearings. His sire stood far ahead 

 as a producer of 2.30 speed. His dam was sired 

 by Nutwood, who was the second sire of 2.30 

 speed. As the greatest producer of speed, there- 

 fore, I put Electioneer as the best son of Hamble- 

 tonian 10. One must remember that he stood at 

 the extreme Western section of our country, that 

 he was kept as a private stallion, and his wonder- 

 ful showing was from the mares of one owner. 

 " The other noted stallions have stood in locali- 



