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the South. The time of the running in this race 

 was very good, both of the animals exhibiting 

 qualities of speed and endurance — qualities 

 that challenge the admiration of the turfman, 

 and qualities that the breeder always aims to 

 combine. 



Famous as a racer, Ariel was next to a failure 

 in the breeding stud. Her first colt was foaled 

 in 1832; it was a filly, and strongly inbred, the 

 gray mare having been bred back to her own 

 sire, American Eclipse. Ariel produced two 

 other colts, but none of them ever achieved 

 much of a reputation on the turf. 



It is thought by many who have given serious 

 study to the problem that a long and trying 

 career as a racer renders a mare unfit for the 

 breeding stud. The course of training is very 

 severe, and if it is kept up for a series of years, 

 it is claimed that it has an injurious effect upon 

 the reproductive powers. Be the argument true 

 or not, certain it is that the produce of many of 

 our most celebrated race-mares have failed to 

 reflect honor upon their dams. Mary Randolph, 

 a gray mare of excellent breeding, sixteen hands 

 high, got by Gohanna, a son of Sir Archy, foaled 

 in March, 1828, was a brilliant performer on the 



