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TRANSMISSION 



This is 32 times the breeding record of the average sire, and 

 nearly five times the record of the 207 great sires, themselves 

 included, or over six times their record exclusive of these ten. 



It is worth while to note the sires of these great breeders of 

 speed. Number 2 is by Hambletonian 10; No. 6 is by Happy 

 Medium, he by Hambletonian 10; No. I is by Belmont, by 

 Abdallah, he by Hambletonian 10; and the remaining seven, 

 Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, are by Geo. Wilkes, by Hamble- 

 tonian 10. Thus, of this remarkable list of ten stallions, all 

 except one are but two removes from Hambletonian 10. Of this 

 number, those that were sired by Geo. Wilkes produced 640 

 trotters and 232 pacers, in all 872 performers, or more than 

 66 per cent of the whole. 



The famous grandsires. Eight stallions of this list have the 

 distinction of being grandsire to over 500 performers, as follows : 



TABLE OF FAMOUS GRANDSIRES HAVING 500 OR MORE PERFORMERS 

 IN THE SECOND GENERATION * 



1 Column i, name of grandsire ; column 2, number of performers of his ffivn 

 get ; columns 3 and 4, number of sires he got, with their get in the list ; columns 

 5 and 6, number of dams he got, with the performers dropped by them ; column 7, 

 total performers gotten by sires and dams, the second generation ; column 8, 

 number of performers (column 2) that were also sires, and their performing get. 



N.B. Many of the sires (column 3) were not performers and many of the 

 performers (column 2) were not sires. Numbers in parentheses refer to year of 

 birth and death. 



