. The American trotter; a treatise on his origin, history and development. he had the appearance and characteristics of a thor-oughbred. When young she was so high strung thatshe was inclined to be contrary and balky, but thisinfirmity was overcome by kind treatment, and shewas finally induced to work kindly, doing generalwork on a farm, but the man who handled her saidthey at first had to get an extra strong set of irontraces to prevent her from breaking them every Black must have been an extra good mare andhighly prized, or Mr. Seely would not have sent herto imported Messenger. Her
. The American trotter; a treatise on his origin, history and development. he had the appearance and characteristics of a thor-oughbred. When young she was so high strung thatshe was inclined to be contrary and balky, but thisinfirmity was overcome by kind treatment, and shewas finally induced to work kindly, doing generalwork on a farm, but the man who handled her saidthey at first had to get an extra strong set of irontraces to prevent her from breaking them every Black must have been an extra good mare andhighly prized, or Mr. Seely would not have sent herto imported Messenger. Her daughter, Silvertail, byMessenger, was a very superior animal, and possessedremarkable endurance. Mr. Jonas Seely, a man of unquestioned veracity, isauthority for the statement that on several occasionsSilvertail was ridden to saddle one hundred miles in aday, by his father; and on one occasion when he (JonasSeely) was about ten years old, she carried his fatherto saddle with him up behind seventy-five miles in adav. It has never been stated that Silvertail possessed 56. HAMBLETONIAN AND HI,^ SONS. good trotting action or showed any inclination to stickto the trotting gait, but it has been stated upon thebest of authority that she would gallop all day. ThisSilvertail, a daughter of imported Messenger and JinBlack, was mated with Bishops Hambletonian, a run-ning bred son of imported Messenger, and one of hismost successful sons, both as a race winner and sireof trotting speed, and the produce was a brown filly,somewhat wilful, rather hard to manage, when theycame to break her. During the breaking process shehad a stubborn fit one day, and her breaker knockedout one of her eyes, hence she was named One Eye. Mr. Jonas Seely does not say anything about thetrotting inclination or trotting action of One Eye. Hedid say, however, to the late J. H. Wallace, that Jackson, a brother-in-law of Mr. Seely, had hermated with the Norfolk trotter, imported Bellfounder,and the produce,
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