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LEADING SONS OP ALEXANDER'S ABDALLAH. 



ALMONT was bred at Woodburn Farm, was foaled 1864, and was 

 by Alexander's Abdallah out of Sally Anderson, by Mambrino 

 Chief; grandam Kate, a wonderfully fast pacer by Pilot Jr. 

 Colonel R. P. Pepper informed me that he knew Kate as well as 

 any of his own horses, and that her speed at the pace was "sim- 

 ply terrific." Kate, whose dam was called the Pope mare, pedi- 

 gree unknown, had several foals, among them the "catch filly" 

 that was the dam of Clay Pilot, sire of The Moor, that got the 

 great brood mare Beautiful Bells, 2:29-J, and Sultan, 2:24, the sire 

 of the world-famous Stamboul, 2:07|. Thus the blood of this 

 pacing Pilot Jr. mare figures in three great sub-families, the 

 Almont family, the Beautiful Bells family, and the Sultan family. 

 Almont was a beautiful cherry bay, very rich in shade, and with- 

 out any white whatever. He was fifteen hands two and one- 

 (jiutrter inches high at the wither, somewhat higher behind, and 

 stoutly and symmetrically made all over. He could not be called 

 a handsome or highly finished horse, but he was emphatically a 

 well-made one. He had very excellent feet and legs, and these 

 he reproduced with great uniformity, as well as his very intelli- 

 gent and even disposition. He was trained early at Woodburn, 

 and, like his sire, started but once and distanced his competitor 

 in 2:39f, this being in his four-year-old form. He soon after 

 showed 2:32 over the slow Woodburn track, and was sold to the 

 late Colonel Richard West for eight thousand dollars and put in 

 the stud. In 1874 the late General W. T. Withers, Lexington, 

 Kentucky, bought him for fifteen thousand dollars, and a half 



