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Strathmore was ever trained, and probably his pacing inclination 

 furnishes the reason. When he was seven years old he was pur- 

 chased by Colonel R. G. Stoner, of Paris, Kentucky, and named 

 Strathmore, and up to this time, Colonel Stoner states, he had 

 but three foals, one of which was afterward known as Chestnut 

 Hill, 2:22%, the first of his get to earn a reputation. His first 

 two seasons were made in Montgomery County, after which he 

 was taken to Paris, in Bourbon County. Colonel Stoner states 

 in one of his catalogues that Strathmore's early opportunities in 

 Kentucky were very inferior; that in 1877 and 1878 the service 

 fees earned would not pay for his keep; that up to 1879 he 

 never served a mare with a record or the dam of an animal with a 

 record, and that it was not until Steinway trotted in 1878 as a 

 two-year old in 2:31f, and Santa Glaus as a five-year-old in 2:18 in 

 1879 that any good mares came to Strathmore. At Colonel 

 Stoner's sale, February 9, 1886, Strathmore was sold for two 

 thousand one hundred and fifty dollars to Eockhill & Bro., of 

 Fort Wayne, Indiana, and they owned him until his death, 

 March 11, 1895. Strathmore has seventy-one in the standard 

 list; twenty-six of his sons and fifty-four of his daughters have 

 produced one hundred and fifty-eight standard performers. 



EGBERT is one of the youngest sons of Hambletonian, and has 

 achieved very fair success in the stud. He is closely inbred to 

 the Hambletonian, or rather the Abdallah blood, and is possibly 

 the most notable instance of a successful sire being very closely 

 inbred. Egbert was bred by Hon. J. H. Walker, Worcester, 

 Massachusetts, and was foaled in 1875. He was sold at the sale 

 of Mr. Walker's horses at Worcester in the autumn of 1877, 

 when he was purchased for the then great price for a two-year- 

 old of three thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars by 

 H. J. Hendryx, of Michigan, a representative of Mr. Veech, of 

 Kentucky, being a contending bidder. After the sale Mr. 

 Hendryx sold the colt for four thousand dollars to George W. 

 Raudenbush, of Reading, Pennsylvania, who I believe still owns 

 him. In the spring of 1880 Egbert was taken by Colonel Richard 

 West to his farm at Georgetown, Kentucky, and kept there a 

 number of years, and indeed the greater part of his stud career 

 has been in Kentucky. I am not aware that Egbert was ever 

 trained. He is individually a superior horse, but is alleged to 

 have an unkind disposition. 



Egbert was got by Hambletonian out of Campdown, by Mes- 



