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by St. Julien to 2.11}. This is a big, slashing bay 
horse, with a large but good head, wide hips, and pow- 
erful hind legs. His sire was Volunteer, who was by 
the famous Rysdyck’s Hambletonian, Volunteer’s dam 
being a well-bred mare, from whom he derived a hand- 
some head and neck and a high spirit, these being 
characteristics seldom found in the Hambletonian 
strain. The dam of St. Julien was of the Clay fam- 
ily, which he closely resembled. St. Julien, like many 
other trotters, was not educated to the turf without 
the expenditure of exceeding pains on the part of his 
trainer and driver, Mr. Orrin Hickock. He is a very 
nervous horse, and it required months of practice be- 
fore he became accustomed to “scoring,” so that he 
was fit to start in a race. 
A year later, Maud §8. reduced the record to 2.103, 
and again in 1885, to 2.083, which is still the best 
time for a regulation or oval-shaped track, though 
on the kite-shaped track Palo Alto equalled it, and 
Sunol surpassed it by half a second in the autumn of 
1891. Jay-Eye-See, with his record of 2.10, held the 
supremacy for a single day in 1884. He is an honest 
but ugly little black horse, having hind legs of tre- 
mendous power, which propel him with the accuracy 
and force of locomotive driving-wheels. Jay-Eye-See 
was by Dictator, a son of Rysdyck’s Hambletonian, 
and brother to Dexter. Jay-EyeSee’s dam was a 
daughter of Pilot Jr., and his grandam was by Lex- 
ington, ‘a famous race horse inbred to Diomed. Maud 
8., as we have seen, was bred in much the same way. 
Her sire was Harold, by Rysdyck’s Hambletonian ; 
her dam was Miss Russell, by Pilot Jr., and her 
grandam was by Boston, the four-mile racer, and sire 
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