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the most successful breeders ; and I hope to show that if 

 the same care had been taken in keeping the pedigrees of 

 trotters pure that there has been with race horses, the 

 proportion of fast ones would have been materially in- 

 creased, with much more symmetry of form, and greater 

 powers of endurance. I also expect to show that racing 

 and trotting are not antagonistical qualities, but that the 

 same animal which is so conspicuous as the progenitor of 

 trotters, has been equally famed for transmitting racing 

 qualities to his descendants. For the truth of this state- 

 ment we will again bring on to the witness-stand the 

 noted mare Ariel. She ran fifty-seven races, winning 

 forty-two of them seventeen at four-mile heats traveling 

 at least three thousand miles in her peregrinations from 

 one race course to another, nearly every mile on foot. 

 She raced from the banks of the Hudson river, on the 

 classic courses of the Old Dominion, to the flowering 

 plains of Georgia, and inhaled the genial air wafted from 

 orange groves by the breeze that dimpled the gulf at 

 Charleston, S. C., beating the fleetest short stock their 

 favorite distances, and outlasting the gamest of the game 

 in the trying ordeal of four heats of four miles each, 

 Srunning a third heat in 7:57, Trumpator beating her only 

 a few feet when she won the fourth in 8 :04. This was on 

 the Newmarket (Virginia) Course, where the best time for 

 a first heat was Henry's 7 :54 proving those of Ariel the 

 very best on record. In imitation of your example, I will 

 give her pedigree to the fifth generation to show the man- 

 ner of her inbreeding to Messenger : 



