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family, no thinking man can contend that he was the equal of 

 Almont as a sire, when all the circumstances are considered. 

 Almont spent almost his entire stud career at Fairlawn, where 

 there never were five mares worthy in blood to be in a great trot- 

 ting stud, where there were scores of mares of all kinds of poor 

 and freakish pedigrees, even to " Arabs, " and where none of the 

 stock was ever trained. Belmont, on the other hand, was all his 

 life at the head of the most famous, and, in his younger years, 

 unquestionably the best collection of trotting brood mares in the 

 world, and where a training department was always maintained. 

 Eemembering these conditions, and contemplating the statistics 

 of the two families, it is interesting to speculate as to how the 

 records would stand had Belmont been at Fairlawn, and Almont 

 at Woodburn. 



LEADING SONS OP BELMONT. 



Belmont, besides having the advantage of excellent individual- 

 ity was also a trotter of no mean speed. He was driven a mile 

 over the working track at Woodburn in 2:28^, and was, there- 

 fore, a quite well-developed trotter. He never appeared in 

 public, and has, therefore, no public history. The most success- 

 ful of his sons has been Nutwood, whose dam was Miss Russell, 

 the dam of Maud S. This horse was himself a fast trotter in his 

 day, taking a record of 2:18f, and rose to great popularity and 

 success in the stud. Daughters of Belmont, being nearly all out 



