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trotters and pacers with records in the 2:20 list, including the 

 champion trotting stallion Directum, 2:05, and the one-time 

 champion pacing stallion, Direct, who after being practically 

 crippled in trotting to a four-year-old record of 2:18, carrying 

 great weights to keep him at that gait, was allowed to go at his 

 natural gait and paced in 2:05, and is already a very successful 

 sire. Phallas, 2:13f, of whom high hopes were entertained, and 

 who had great opportunities, proved practically a failure in the 

 stud, though his son Phallamont, out of an Almont mare, ranks 

 with Direct as the best of Dictator's grandsons. Dictator got fifty 

 standard performers, forty-four of bis sons have produced one 

 hundred and seventy-three standard performers, and forty-two of 

 his daughters have produced sixty-one standard performers. 



HAROLD became very famous when Maud S. became queen of 

 fhe turf with the then marvelous record of 2:08f, a record that 

 stood unequaled from 1885 till 1891. This horse was bred by 

 Charles S. Dole, Crystal Lake, Illinois, by whom he was sold, in 

 an exchange of horses, to Woodburn Farm, when he was a year- 

 ling. He was foaled in 1864, and his dam was Enchantress 

 (the dam also of Black Maria and of Lakeland Abdallah), by 

 Abdallah. It was long claimed that this mare's dam was a 

 daughter of imported Bellfounder, but investigation exploded 

 this claim. Harold was a bay horse, without marks, just fifteen 

 hands high, stoutly made but very homely of form. He had a 

 finely made head, but otherwise he was exceedingly plain, and 

 when Maud S. came out the late Benjamin Bruce, in the Ken- 

 tucky Live Stock Record, expressed wonder that "that little 

 bench-legged stud" could have gotten such a mare. Harold's 

 full brother, Lakeland Abdallah, was far superior to him in- 

 dividually, but ranks with Hetzel's Hambletonian, the brother 

 to Volunteer, and Kearsarge, by Volunteer out of Dexter's dams, 

 in the fore front of the well-bred failures in trotting history. 

 Largely from his individuality Harold was never, even when 

 Maud S. was in the heyday of her renown, a popular horse, and 

 the figures given by the Woodburn management say that in his 

 entire career he was bred to but five hundred and ninety-four 

 mares, or an average of about twenty-five for each of his twenty- 

 three seasons. With the exception of Maud S., Harold got 

 nothing of the first class, but in the second generation the family 

 holds better rank in respect to extreme speed production. Beu - 

 zetta, 2:06f, Early Bird, 2:10, The Conqueror, 2:13, and the great 



