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those who could not believe anything different from what 

 their grandfathers believed, and would not acknowledge 

 defeat. The improvement in the stamina and pace of the 

 hounds necessitated the -change, as it would have been 

 impossible for the best hunters of "fifty years since" to 

 have kept in sight of a pack of the modern flyers for 

 twenty minutes. 



With the teachings of the past before us, would not 

 Messenger be as likely to get fast trotters as his renowned 

 inbred great-grandson ? Would not Mambrino ? Who would 

 not be better pleased if the Chas. Kent mare had been by 

 Trustee, instead of Bellfounder ? Has Hambletonian gained 

 from that blood any advantages that are superior to the 

 thoroughbred crosses, of which he has so many ? I think 

 no well-informed horseman will claim that he has. Who 

 would not prefer Ariel for a brood mare to breed trotters 

 from, to one with the same amount of Messenger, but 

 French, Bellfounder and Morgan in the place of the purer 

 streams ? The wealthy gentleman in Orange County, whose 

 stud of trotters is probably superior to any other in extent, 

 who has spared no expense in everything connected with 

 it to make it the best in the world, who has been so lavish 

 in his expenditures that his farm is a model in everything 

 appertaining to breeding, merits the sincere well-wishes of 

 all who are interested in the development of the American 

 roadster. From an account I read lately, he has twenty- 

 six brood mares, a majority of them being by American 

 Star, the others, Long Island ; Black Hawk, Bellfounder, 

 General Gifford, Vermont Hambletonian, Canadian, Harry 

 Clay, and one by Old Abdallah, with a colt by Hamble- 

 tonian. The author of this account saw an inbred Bell- 

 founder mare, displaying the historical characteristics of 

 that breed, which he appears not to value very highly. 

 All these mares had been bred to Bysdyk's Hambletonian, 

 making a bill of thirteen thousand dollars for the horse's 



