CHAPTEE XXIV. 



OLD-TIME TROTTERS— Continued. 

 Ethan Allen — Color and description — Breeding — A natural-born trotter — 

 Eighteen years on the trotting turf — His great race against Dexter in 

 1867 — Crowned King of the Morgans — Success in the stud — His 

 death in 1876 — Ethan Allen in memoriam. Goldsmith Maid — Her 

 breeding and pedigree — Sold at eight years for $350 — Sold in 1870 

 (when thirteen years old) for $35,000 — Her races in 1871 — In 1874 she 

 lowered the trotting record of the world to 2.14 — Trotted in 2.14 at 

 twenty years old — Retired to breeding stud in 1876 — Goldsmith Maid 

 in memoriam. 



ETHAN ALLEN. 



ETHAN" ALLEN, whose fame as a trotting stallion was 

 co-extensive with, that of the American trotting horse 

 for a score of years, was a beautiful bay in color with three 

 white feet and a small star and snip. He stood fifteen hands 

 and a half inch in height and was one of the most beautiful 

 fast trotting horses ever exhibited on the American turf. 



He was foaled in 1849, the property of J. W. Holcomb of 

 Ticonderoga, N. T. He was sired by Black Hawk, son of 

 Sherman Morgan, by Justin Morgan. His dam was a flea- 

 bitten gray mare, a famous roadster bred in Vermont and 

 sired by a Morgan horse called Robin and tracing to Justin 

 Morgan. 



Ethan Allen was a natural-born trotter, and trotted from 

 his colthood up. His training for the turf commenced when 

 but little more than a year old ; and he appeared upon the 

 trotting turf every year from two years to twenty years of 



He was a most perfect horse and never required any of the 

 artificial appliances so much in vogue at the present time, such 

 as weights, boots, hobbles, etc. When young he was a remark- 

 ably handsome horse ; high-headed and stylish, and when he 

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