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hundred and seventy, to Budd Doble, for two thousand 



five hundred dollars, at the time of his winning the 



three-year-old stake at Middletown, in 2 m. and 56 s., 



being the same time made by his sire, at the same age. 



A like sum has been offered for her second colt, and 



refused. This horse has served mares only at his 



owner's stable, and at the moderate price of fifty 



dollars to insure. He served, during the season of 



eighteen hundred and seventy-one, one hundred and 



fourteen mares, proving himself a sure foal getter. 2S^ 



well as a source of great profit to his owner. 



More fortunately in the horse than in human kind 



a noble sire more certainly transmits his estimable 



qualities to his posterity ; and while the human kind 



may bask in the sunshine of ancestral glory, enjoy a 



secondary fame by keeping himself obscured in the 



paternal shadow, or claim for himself the undeserved 



merits of a family name, and with diplomatic skill and 



through artful devices bear off the laurels belonging 



to others ; the horse kind, before his claims to celebrity 



md fame are considered, must produce the double 

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