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Cultivator". " Grand old horse ! Others have beaten his time; a 

 few others (and very few) have beaten his stud career, and other 

 families have risen to greater popularity than his; but in all the 

 course of trotting history no other stallion ever gained and held such 

 wide-spread admiration from the people, or was ever so taken right 

 to the public heart. What words can picture his grace of action, 

 his perfect poise and animated glow ! He carried the magic wand 

 that commanded admiration. To see was to admire. They loved 

 him for himself. Long after he s.hall have passed away, the bright- 

 est encomium that can be paid to the action of a trotting horse will 

 be that he is gaited like old Ethan. That compasses all. It is the 

 end of the law". ("Hark Comstock" [Peter C. Kellogg] in 1873.) 

 A half interest in Ethan Allen, when a colt, was sold to Orville 

 S. Roe of Shoreham, Vermont, and during the earlier years of his 

 life he was owned jointly by Holcomb and Roe. During these years 

 he was kept for service mostly at Larrabee's Point, Shoreham, Ver- 

 mont, and some seasons at Cambridge, Massachusetts ; but he was used 

 on the track, more or less, nearly or quite every season, trotting 

 many races, the most of which he won. In 1862 he was sold to 

 Frank Baker, who, after a time, sold him to Dan Mace and I. D. 

 Walton. In 1866 he was purchased by J. E. Maynard of Boston, 

 who sold him to Eph. Simmons, but afterwards bought him back, 

 and again sold him, November 5th, 1868, to Wesley P. Balch of 

 Boston, who in turn sold him to Col. H. S. Russell of Milton, Massa- 

 chusetts. In 1866 and 1868 he was advertised to stand in Boston at 

 one hundred dollars the season. In 1869 he was kept at Mystic Park, 

 Medford, Massachusetts, at one hundred dollars the season, and in 1 870 

 at the same place at two hundred dollars the season. He was finally 

 sold, October i/th, 1870, to Col. AmasaSprague of Providence, Rhode 

 Island, for seven thousand five hundred dollars. Col. Sprague kept 

 him at Providence for a time and then sent him to the Sprague and 

 Akers stock farm at Lawrence, Kansas, where he passed a serene 

 old age in peace and comfort, and died on the loth of September, 

 1876, in his twenty-eighth year. He was buried at the entrance of 

 the trotting park, and there a suitable monument was erected to his 

 memory. His skeleton was afterwards exhumed and now stands in 

 the Museum of Natural History at Lawrence. Perhaps no other 

 horse has ever done so much service both in the stud and on the 

 track, the same seasons. It appears that all his trotters with fastest 

 records, as well as all his most noted sires, were got during the pe- 

 riod while he was kept at Shoreham. Born the same year as Rys- 

 dyk's Hambletonian, he sired up to 1872 a precisely equal number 



