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of ' ' Pilot Medium" and ' ' Peter the Great, ' ' 

 concentrated in his famous grandson such 

 qualities of real greatness as intelligence, 

 early maturity, speed, and early speed, 

 great lung capacity, soundness of bone, 

 wind, tough tendons, stamina, great vital- 

 ity, great endurance, beauty of conforma- 

 tion and the "do or die spirit — " which 

 they particularly show in long drawn out 

 races. 



"Peter the Great" has, today, a stud fee 

 of $1,000 and to his harem come more mares 

 than he can cover. Other trotting stallions 

 stand as low as $1 and get no patronage. 

 ' "Electioneer," through his matchless 

 grandson, "Bingen," who sold for a large 

 sum when 18 years old, contributes to the 

 trotting breed of horses early maturity, 

 beauty of conformation and extreme and 

 early speed. "George Wilkes" was able 

 to distribute his heritage of greatness to 

 four lines of descendants, as follows : "Bar- 

 on Wilkes," "Alcyone," "Onward" and 

 "WilUam L." The characteristics, which 

 he handed on to these four important 

 strains of trotting horse blood, are : intelli- 



