34 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
founder of the family. ‘This horse was thus de- 
scribed by one who had seen him : — 
“He was a golden chestnut, about sixteen hands, 
with a perfect diamond on his nose, and two white 
socks behind. In his general inake-up he partook 
much of the thoroughbred appearance: the lghtness 
of his head and neck, his wiry leg and elastic move- 
ment, his glossy coat and waveless mane and tail, 
shaded from a darker hue to a bright tint on the 
edge, —in all a perfect type of the high-bred runner. 
He was exhibited at the State Fair at Auburn, New 
York, in 1848. I can never forget, though I was 
very young at the time, this eventful show, as he 
assumed a position among his rivals which bade 
defiance to the artist. He seemed to realize the ad- 
miration with which he was regarded by the immense 
throng about him.” 
The rich chestnut color, the high spirit, the well- 
bred look, displayed by Grinnell’s Champion, distin- 
guish the family to this day, and it is probably owing 
more to accident aud mismanagement than to any 
deficiency that the Champions are few in number, 
and of less reputation than the Hambletonians. ‘The 
fastest of the family was the Auburn horse, who 
belonged to Mr. Robert Bonner.} 
The Auburn horse was the last of those famous 
trotters which, as one writer remarks with pardona- 
ble extravagance, were stabled in Hiram Woodruff’s 
brain.2 In the autumn of 1864, just before winter 
1 He was a son of King’s Champion, his dam being by Red 
Bird, son of Billy Duroc, by Duroc, son of imported Diomed. 
2 Mr. Woodruff, a genius in the art of horsemanship, and a 
very honest man, was the author of “The Trotting Horse of 
America,” by far the most interesting work upon the subject. 
