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jobbers must be punished in order that jobbery may be made odious. I have no fear 

 but that the magisterial officers selected by the managers of the tracks about New 

 York will be "men who their duties know and, knowing, dare maintain." 



OUR GREAT NATIVE MARES 



The late Col. Harry Innes Thornton the Bayard sans peur et sans reproche of the 

 California turf, and myself used to have many a severe argument as to which was the 

 greatest of all American broodmares. He stuck out dogmatically for Alice Carneal, 

 simply because she produced the immortal Lexington and the great Umpire, to whom 

 I have -alluded elsewhere. With all the esteem for him that I bore while he lived ; and 

 all the love I bear his memory now that he has "crossed the river to rest in the shade 

 of the trees," I must still differ with him. My choice falls upon that wonderful ma- 

 tron Levity, for even if the gallant little Master of Resaca were alive, it is plain that 

 the founder of the family is neither Levity nor Alice Carneal, but Lady Grey, by Robin 

 Grey, foaled 1817 and bred by Colonel Robert Sanders, of Scott county, whom I presume 

 to have been the father of Colonel Lewis Sanders, who died in Sacramento in 1859. 

 Here is a reversed pedigree that will make your back teeth water and it is quite prob- 

 able that I have omitted several good ones : 



