TROTTING FAMILIES. 53 
country, and his owner challenged the world at four- 
mile heats. Boston, a grandson of Sir Archy, started 
in forty-five races and won forty, of which thirty were 
races of four-mile heats. Lexington, sou of Boston, 
was also a noted long-distance runner. Both Boston 
and Lexington were inbred to Diomed. 
When we turn to the very fastest trotters and pacers, 
we find, as I have stated, that the blood of Diomed, 
chiefly through his son Sir Archy, figures not very 
remotely in their pedigrees. Thus, Miss Russell, dam 
of Maud 8. and of Nutwood,! was out of Sally Russell, 
a daughter of Boston, and the dam of Miss Russell’s 
sire, Pilot Jr., was by Havoc, by Sir Charles, a grand- 
son of Diomed. ‘The grandam of Jay-Eye-See was by 
Lexington. 
The dam of the wonderful Arion, whose two-year- 
old record is 2.103, was by Nutwood, just mentioned. 
In the pedigree of Direct, the pacer who holds the 
fastest record, of Allerton, of Nancy Hanks, and of 
others scarcely inferior, will be found a double, and 
sometimes a triple and quadruple cross of Diomed 
blood. If it be asked what essential quality these 
horses may be supposed to derive from Diomed, the 
answer would be that it is gameness, endurance, or 
“nerve force.” Speaking generally, Messenger con- 
tributed the action, and Diomed contributed the inward 
spirit, both of which are necessary to bring a trotter 
to the wire in superlatively fast time. 
Other thoroughbreds that figure largely in trotting 
pedigrees are Trustee, Glencoe, and Margrave; and it 
is a notable fact that all these names, as well as the 
1 His record is 2.18}, and no less than seventy-five of his sons 
and daughters, including pacers, are in the 2.30 list. 
