MANTUA MAKER AND HER TWENTIETH FOAL 
No other case has been found on record, of a trotting bred mare producing twenty foals; but 
Mantua Maker, above shown, appears likely to produce several more before her career of 
usefulness is ended. 
At the present time she is 25 years old. 
She was bred and has been 
owned throughout her entire career by Henry M. Jones, who has therefore been able to 
keep full data concerning her and her progeny. 
to have transmitted this valuable quality to her own offspring. 
She comes of a fecund strain, and appears 
Such strains are of great 
value to the livestock industry, and every breeder should try to find them and utilize 
them. 
She has reached this standard with 
eighteen of the twenty foals, the foal 
of 1912 having died, by an accident, 
when seven days old, and the last one 
has not yet reached the age. 
The records show that the greatest 
trotting stallions lived from twenty- 
three to thirty-four years. While the 
records are not so accurate on mares, 
still the very greatest of them have 
lived long lives. 
That this mare inherited longevity 
and fecundity is proved by the records. 
Her sire, Red Wilkes, died at 30 and 
sired 178 with standard records. His 
sons sired 1,037 and his daughters 
produced 312. Her grandsire, George 
Wilkes, died at 26, sired 83 standard 
performers; his sons sired 3,204 and 
daughters produced 209. Her great 
grandsire, Hambletonian, died at 37 
after siring 40 standard performers; 
(Fig. 8.) 
his sons sired 1,717, while his daughters 
produced 119. His sire. Abdallah, lived 
to be 31. Harold 413, sire of her dam, 
died at 29; and her fifth dam, Black 
Rose, has more than 2,700 descendants. 
These facts are substantial proof that 
she inherited longevity and fecundity 
and it is further evidenced by the fact 
that these characters have been trans- 
mitted to her offspring, as the writer 
still owns her first two foals, which are 
hale and hearty at 21 and 20 respec- 
tively, and knows positively that eigh- 
teen of her twenty foals are now living. 
Her first foal, Junie Fleetwood, at the 
age of 16 had produced twelve foals, 
when pathological conditions arising at 
the birth of twins put an untimely end 
to her breeding career. Her grand- 
daughter, Solferino, has produced seven 
foals and is now 11 years old and in the 
height of her breeding career. 
