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as could be found ; and in order also to serve those who 

 wanted a trotting strain to breed from, he selected Clipper. 

 The blood Clipper drew from the veins of his dam and 

 half-bred sire, gave him quite a share of that which would 

 be so great an advantage to the cold blood mares, about 

 the only kind kept in that region. The owner endured the 

 irritation consequent on owning two public stallions for 

 several seasons, thinking that when the progeny began to 

 display their good qualities, it would stop the abuse that 

 was so plentifully heaped on his pets, but it increased. 

 Fifty good colts would be passed without a word of com- 

 mendation, while a medium or poor one would be held up 

 as a specimen of the horse's breeding. 



He became utterly disgusted at the stock not being 

 appreciated, made a present of the thoroughbred to a 

 friend, and selling the Clipper for what we both thought 

 was but a quarter of his value. He is as gentle as a horse 

 can be on the road, a child driving him without the least 

 danger, but on the track is quite a different animal. A 

 sharp tone or flourish of the whip and away he goes for 

 the fence. At times he will trot fast, but on making a 

 break, will rush for the same place or jump frantically in 

 the air, expecting a repetition of the beatings he has not 

 yet forgotten. You will also perceive that he is as much 

 out of condition as a horse can well be; every leg swollen; 

 in the right hind foot a bad case of thrush, with a bowed 

 sinew on the near fore leg that looks like the premonitory 

 symptoms of a break down; this, however, was occasioned 

 by a blow, so that it may not be as dangerous a$ it ap- 

 pears. ^ 



PEECEPTOB. Had I not my eye; full of the Falcon's 

 faultless symmetry of form, I would have greatly admired 

 the proportions of this one, though he shows but very 

 little signs of his grand sire the " Canuck ;" another proof 

 of the superiority of racing blood. The five-eighths or 



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