WALNUT HALL AND CRUICKSTON PARK 



train from Washington for Lexington and wandered 

 over the fields in which his horses grazed, or gone 

 to the training track and leaned over the rail and 

 forgot all about politics in watching the trotters be- 

 ing driven exhibition miles. As soon as Senator 

 Bailey is convinced that one combination of blood 

 is not swelling the harvest of success, he does not 

 hesitate to shift to another base. His mind is alert 

 and his judgment good. The stallion to which he 

 has been constant is Prodigal, 2.16, to high-wheel 

 sulky, sire of John Nolan, 2.08, and sixty-nine other 

 trotters and pacers. Prodigal belongs to a distin- 

 guished family, and his reputation as a sire of speed 

 grows with the years. 



At Franklin, in the oil region of Pennsylvania, 

 Charles Miller and Joseph C. Sib ley established a 

 great breeding farm. The first elaborate catalogue 

 was issued in 1893, and the compiler of it, Roe 

 Reisinger, wrote me a letter from which I quote : 



" I have drawn a sharp distinction between fast 

 records made to regulation sulky and those made to 

 bicycle. I think that you will find that my tabula- 

 tions and briefs of pedigree set forth the relation of 

 the thoroughbred horse to fast trotting performances 

 in a more complete and elaborate form than any 

 previous publication has ever done. I have paid 

 no attention to pacing records except in one or two 

 cases where the animal whose pedigree I was giving 

 had a pacing record, or was the dam of a pacer. 

 This for the reason that Prospect Hill breeds trotters 

 and is not interested in other breeds." 



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