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have been well fed when young are far more certain to 

 have the stamina to do this than others not so fortunate 

 in their breeding. Neither will I contend against your 

 claiming so much for the thoroughbred. But you, just 

 as certainly, will not acknowledge the merits of those 

 which have half or more of the same blood. Half or three- 

 quarter bred horses for trotting, answer every purpose as 

 well as if they had the full modicum necessary to remove 

 the h. b. stain in the English Stud Book. Not only trot- 

 ters, but some of the very best racers, could not boast 

 of more. Look at old Betsey Malone, the "traveling 

 terror," never losing a race but when she fell down, win- 

 ning twenty-one in succession, at all distances, leaving 

 the turf when five years old, from an accident that re- 

 sulted in blindness. 



Her daughter, Charmer, winning sixteen three-mile 

 races, emulating her mother by never losing one at this 

 distance, and in the aggregate number, recording nearly 

 double as many as any of her illustrious sire's get, never 

 handing in her checks till ten years old her valedictory 

 a second four mile heat in 7 :43|. The first named mare, 

 by Stockholder, dam by Potomac, with the Glencoe 

 added in her nearly as celebrated daughter, is not a very 

 extensive pedigree, and has one advantage of not requir- 

 ing a horse memory, like that of Dr. Weldon, to remem- 

 ber it. 



PUPIL. I have not succeeded in making myself under- 

 stood, as I never intended to take away any of the well 

 merited honors won by the part-bred heroes and heroines. 

 Yet, I fully believe the better bred the horse, the better 

 performer he will be at anything requiring speed, and 

 will fortify myself with illustrations that are not remem- 

 bered quite as clearly as I would like to have them, before 

 adducing them as proof. Betsy Malone, I am in hopes, 

 will be rescued from the obloquy that has always rested 



