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family. David Bonner, a most excellent judge of such 

 matters, who had often seen Pocahontas, said she re- 

 sembled that mare very strongly in conformation and 

 markings. H. M. Hanna, who often ran away from 

 school to ride "quarter races" on a Cadmus, and who is 

 very familiar with that family, coincides in the opinion 

 that Shanghai Mary was a Cadmus. 



But to return to our subject, "relation, " etc., i. e., profit 

 to the agriculturist in breeding the trotter. My advice to 

 a beginner would be to carefully study the 2 130 list, and 

 from it form an idea of the breeding or combination of 

 blood most potent in producing the representatives in that 

 list. Then breed to the best your means will permit. Re- 

 member, always, that a horse bred to trot and cannot trot, 

 cannot do what he is bred to do, and is therefore a failure. 

 Don't bred to such a one. He cannot transmit a power he 

 does not possess. Between the two horses, equal individ- 

 ually, one standard and the other not, breed to the stand- 

 ard one, but far better breed to a good non-standard 

 horse than a poor standard one. Never forget that a good 

 looking horse will always sell well, therefore do not sac- 

 rifice looks for uncertain speed. In this day the combina- 

 tion, good looks and speed, should be easily produced. 

 Never breed to a horse with hereditary unsoundness. 



If you can afford it buy mares of fashionable breeding, 

 because their offspring will sell readily for good prices. 

 If you cannot afford that kind do the best you can, con- 

 soling yourself with the reflection that the dams of many 

 of the fastest horses in the world have been low-priced 

 mares. Oliver K. was sold with his dam for $150; 

 Axtell's dam cost $150; Jack's dam sold for $75; Mc- 

 Doel's for $140; Allerton's for $200, and the list might be 

 continued up into the hundreds. 



