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an early wonder, winning the yearling stake at Lexington meeting of 

 1888 in 2.38. She was not trotted as a two-year-old, meanwhile be- 

 coming the property of S. A. Browne & Co., of Kalamazoo, l)ut in her 

 three-year-old form took a record of 2.22K She was indulged last year 

 again, but this year came out greater than ever. She is yet young, and 

 Mr. Browne believes that she is destined to lower all records. 



Turning from the champion mares to the battle for the stallion 

 championship, a glance backward is necessary. 



In 1889 and 1890 Senator Stanford's horse, Palo Alto, son of Elec- 

 tioneer, and Mr. Hobart's Stamboul, son of Sultan, valiantly but 

 vainly endeavored to wrest the stallion crown from Axtell. Palo Alio 

 trotted in 1889 in 2.121, and in 1890 Stamboul placed his mark at 2.11, 

 one second faster than Axtell, but he had been forestalled in the eon- 

 test for championship honors^ by the eastern stallion, Xelson, who 

 several times trotted faster than 2.12, and went into winrer quarters 

 with a record of 2.10t, thus holding the world's trotting :<tallion record. 



In 1891, Nelson lowered the stallion record to 2.10; then came the 

 triumph of that veritable Titan of the trotting turf, Allerton, wl o 

 trotted the Independence track in 2.091. Later, Palo Alto trotted at 

 Stockton in 2.081, and so the stallion record stood at the beginning of 

 1892. The two rivals for the honor in 1892 were Kremlin and Stam- 

 boul, and at this writing the records stand, Kremlin, 207f, and 

 Stamboul 2.08. 



Kremlin's fame and history are world wide. He is a five-year-old 

 bay stallion, bred at Woodburn, and owned by William Russell Allen, 

 of Pittsfield, Mass. As a three-year-old he showed high racing quality, 

 and was a sensation from his first appearance this season in his five- 

 year-old f )rm. His great victory in the Transylvania stakes at Lex- 

 ington has been told and retold, and those who knew him well have 

 lono- claimed his ability to trot a mile in about 2.08. Kremlin is a 

 purely and intensely trotting-hred horse — a g>od individual backed 

 up by sterling breeding. He is by Lord Russell f brother to INfaud S.. 

 2.031), dam Eventide, by Woodf)rd Marabrino. 2 21}, she out of 

 Vara, by Hambletonian, next dam Venus, by American Star. Like 

 Stamboul's, Kremlin's blood is of the rich, pure, and intense trotting 

 kind. His record of 2.071 at Nashville, Tenn., on November 12th, 

 1892, stamps him as the best trotting stallion that ha« yet appeared. 



A kingly horse under every standard by which a horse may be 



