318 GRAY HORSES. 



Thompson, 2.16i; Charley Ford, 2.16|; Hendry, 2.17; Sally 

 Benton— four years old — 2.17J ; Glen Miller, 2.18; Kitty 

 Bates, 2.17; Tyrolean, 2.20J ; Independence, 2.21 J; Emma B., 

 2.22 ; Joe Brown, 2.22 ; Conway, 2.22J ; Farmer Boy, 2.22J ; 

 Shepherd Boy, 2.23J ; Crown Prince, 2.25 ; Conductor, 2.25£. 

 Two of the above, viz., Kitty Bayard, 2.12, and Emma B., 

 2.22, were sired by the gray horse Bayard, the best son of the 

 gray horse Pilot, Jr., who was the son of the gray mare Miss 

 Bussell, the dam of Maud S., 2.08J, who so long held the 

 world's record, and who still holds it in the same way of 

 going in which she made it. 



The greatest and best of the get of that renowned Ham- 

 bletonian sire, Happy Medium, sire of Nancy Hanks, 2.04, was 

 the gray horse Pilot Medium, and whose dam was the gray 

 mare Tackey, 2.26, by the gray horse Pilot, Jr. 



In the great race in Hartford, Conn., in 1881, Emma B., 

 2.22, a gray mare by Bayard^ lapped the winner out in 2.17. 



The gray horse Bayard, by Pilot, Jr., and the sire of the 

 above-mentioned Kitty Bayard, 2.12, and Emma B., 2.22, al- 

 though obtaining a record (in the little amount of track work 

 given him) of only 2.30, was said to be possessed of more 

 natural speed than any other stallion that ever lived up to his 

 time. 



The dam of that greatest of campaigning stallions, Ethan 

 Allen, was a flea-bitten gray. 



Flying Jib, by Young Jim, with a record of 2.04J, and 

 public trial of 2.04, is also a gray gelding. 



Not only on the race course has the gray horse won dis- 

 tinction, but in the various departments of labor as well. 

 Superintendents of street car stables have told me that the 

 gray horses will stand the summer heat better and do more 

 work and last longer than horses of any other color. Whether 

 worked to the street car, the express wagon, the hack or coach, 

 the family carriage, or the plow, he has ever been distinguished 

 for beauty and endurance. 



The Arab of the desert is most partial to gray horses, and 



