21U ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



He was a chestnut with white hind feet and a strip in his face, 15 1-2 

 hands high, rather short limbed, somewhat flat sided, but of immense 

 substance, and his baciv a prodigy of strength. From 1836 to 1841 he 

 ran thirty-eight times and won thirty-five races, twenty-six of which 

 were four mile heats and seven three mile heats. His winnings were 

 $41t,500, and his earnings as a breeding stallion in 1841, $4,200, making 

 a total ot $53,700. 



Fashion was bred by William Gibbons, Esq., of Madison, N. J., and 

 was foaled April 26, 1837. Of this mare it is recorded that it would be 

 difficult to sit down over the Stud Book and compile a richer pedigree 

 than hers, and the same remark will apply to Boston. Each is descended 

 from the most eminently distinguished racing families on the side of both 

 sire and dam, that have figured on the Turf for a hundred years. 

 Fashion was got by Mr. Livingston's Imp. Trustee, out of the celebrated 

 Bonnets o' Blue by Sir Charles, and she out of Reality — "the very best 

 race-horse," says Col. Johnson, "I ever saw." Reality was got by Sir 

 Archy, and her pedigree extends back through the imported horses Med- 

 ley, Sentinel, Janus, Monkey, Silver-Eye and Spanker, to an imported 

 Sp>-nish mare. Trustee, the sire of Fashion, was a distinguished race- 

 horse in England, and sold at 3 yrs. old for 2,000 guineas to the Duke 

 of Cleveland, after running 3d in the race for the Derby of 101 sub- 

 scribers. He was subsequently imported by Messrs. Ogden, Corbin and 

 Stockton. Trustee was foaled in 1829, and was got by Catton out of 

 Emma, by Whisker, and combines the blood of Hermes, Pipator, and 

 Sir Peter, on his dam's side, with that of Penelope, by Trumpator, and 

 Prunella, by Highflyer, on the side of his sire. Trustee is not a chance 

 horse ; in addition to other winners of his family, in 1835, his own 

 brother, Mundig, won the Derby of 128 subscribers. 



In her three year old form she won three of the races she ran and lost 

 one, being beaten by Tyler after winning the second heat. In her four 

 year old form she ran and won three races, one at two miles, one at three 

 miles and one at four miles. 



Later, the palm of victory rested upon horses bred west of the Alle- 

 ghanies and south of the Ohio river. Among the celebrated ones were 

 Lexington, got in 1851 by Boston out of Alice Carneal. Lecompte, by 

 Glencoe, out of Reel. Pryor, by Glencoe, out of Gypsy, own sister to 

 Medoc, by American Eclipse. 



Still later, and within the last ten years, the laurels of southern bred 

 racers on various tracks in America and Enghftid, are too well known to 

 need recapitulation. 



As showing English and American views on the speed of race horses 

 of twenty years ago, really the palmy days of the turf, and which con- 



