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him, there being neither much knee-action nor width of propulsion behind. 
When entering the track, it is amusing to see him scan the grand stand, 
asif estimating the attendance. He is by Volunteer, dam by Harry Clay. 
Unfortunately for St. Julien’s prospects, he too soon had a stubborn 
and successful rival in the renowned Maud S, who now has the title of 
queen of the trotting turf. Yet she has it by a slender thread, for her 
kinsman, the black five-year-old Jay Eye See, is shadowing her so closely 
that her wonderful performance pales by comparison, noting the time at 
which she achieved it. Maud S, a chestnut, no white, fifteen and three- 
fourths hands high, is a light-boned, very muscular mare with fine limbs. 
Her action is rather high forward, owing to the use of toe-weights no. 
doubt, and she has a peculiar gliding but far-reaching stroke, a folding and 
backward reach of the hind leg, together with a wide-open and lateral out- 
reach that is peculiarly her own, with a spiralescent flexion and extension of 
the limbs. We learned from Mr. Bair, her driver, that she was not a nat- 
ural trotter at first, nor yet was she a true pacer; she had a mixed gait which 
was overcome by the use of: toe-weights. “She was high-strung,”’ he said, 
“but susceptible to good treatment and willing to do right, but resented 
compulsory methods and severe treatment.” She was by Harold, dam 
by Pilot, Jr., second dam thoroughbred—think she inclines to the Pilot-type. 
Jay Eye See is a black gelding, hind ankles white, fifteen hands high, 
by Dictator, out of Midnight by Pilot, Jr., seconddam Twilight, by Lex- 
ington. The breeding of Maud S and Jay Eye See, being so nearly iden- 
tical, affords material for study; for, leaving out the Hambletonian influence 
which does not appear decided in either of them, Jay Eye See shows 
a Star energy that affixes him somewhat to that strain, with some of 
the Pilot characteristics; otherwise there are peculiarities in common be- 
tween these great horses. The gelding is a more natural trotter than the 
mare, and this would seem to favor the Star blood, a most potent element 
in a trotting pedigree. His dam produced Noontide by Harold, a great 
mare, but not so great by nearly ten seconds as Jay Eye See; this again speaks 
for the Star cross. On complimenting Bither, his driver, for having made 
such a trotter, he disclaimed all credit for making him, and said: “ He 
was a natural trotter from the start and made himself. All the credit due 
me is for not spoiling him.” He has not that fine spiral flexion and ex- 
tension of the hind leg that Maud S has, and there is where perhaps she 
would prove the superior if she were not handicapped with toe-weights.. 
The Pilots, then, have the finest propelling action, and the Stars the clever 
faculty of getting the fore feet out of the way of the hind ones naturally, 
without mechanical aids, and the writer considers the propelling action 
of Maud S without a parallel among all known trotters. 
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