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as a strain of Clay blood. In time this idea, like many 

 another founded on prejudice, melted into thin air. 

 As for Bodine, he was sold to H. C. Goodrich, of 

 Chicago, early in 1872, was raced successfully until 

 1877 and made a record of 2:1954 at Saginaw in 1875 

 in the first heat of a $2,000 purse race, in which he de- 

 feated Judge Fullerton, American Girl and Bella. 

 The same year St. Julien, a gelding bred in 

 the same line as Bodine, appeared on the turf, won 

 six races in three weeks and trotted to a record of 

 2:22. In 1880 he placed the world's record at 2:1134* 

 He was the last of the Orange County champions, but 

 not the last of its products to prove the value of the 

 Clay cross, as Electioneer, by Hambletonian, out of 

 a mare by Harry Clay, founded a family of trotters 

 that changed all of the world's records at a mile. 



While Bodine and Huntress were racing in 1871 

 William H. Allen, another Volunteer in the hands of 

 Peter Manee, was making a very favorable impres- 

 sion, but the tide of popular favor did not begin to 

 flow towards their sire until the following season, 

 when John Trout began to move up in front on the 

 mile tracks with Huntress, Abdallah, and the big geld- 

 ing, Whirlwind, whose name was changed to Gloster 

 before he took the word at Buffalo. 



