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was taken and from it was made a list of all 

 of the brood mares credited with producing 

 five or more foals. These mares were by 

 such sires as Hambletonian, Mambrino Chief, 

 Alexander's Abdallah, George M. Patchen, 

 and other early horses which are the founda- 

 tion stock of our 2 : 10 trotters. They had 

 their foals by such horses as George Wilkes, 

 Electioneer, Nutwood, Almont, Belmont, 

 Dictator, etc., all of which appear repeatedly 

 in the pedigrees of 2 : 10 trotters, and all of 

 which were actually among the best sires 

 of their day. Owing to the fact that only a 

 comparatively small proportion of the brood 

 mares registered have lists of their foals given, 

 the ones which do have such lists must be 

 considered to have been the best and most 

 valuable brood mares then living. 



These choice mares had 717 foals by the 

 best sires of the breed, of which probably 350 

 to 360 were daughters used principally for 

 breeding purposes. Nearly one thousand 

 separate and distinct animals appear in the 

 pedigrees of our 2 : 10 trotters, about seven 



