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Williamstown filly, but not one of them had ever seen the mare 

 that George Bidwell was handling, and some of them evidently 

 were not worthy of belief if they had seen her. There is the 

 "missing link" between Behrens' stable and George Bidwell, that 

 has not been supplied and probably never can be supplied. The 

 chances that the Williamstown filly was the real Gipsy Queen, 

 all things considered, seem to stand as about one to a thousand. 

 We must, therefore, conclude that we have no satisfactory in- 

 formation as to how or where this mare was bred. 



BELLE OF WABASH. My first inquiry about this mare was 

 made more than twenty-five years ago, and I did not then suppose 

 that her pedigree would ever become a question of any general 

 interest. In the first volume of the Register I had entered her 

 as a black mare, foaled 1852, got by Bassinger, son of Lieutenant 

 Bassinger, and dam said to be by imported William IV. She was 

 then owned by George 0. Stevens of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

 After her son The Moor proved himself a great sire of trot- 

 ters in getting Beautiful Bells, Sultan, and other good ones, her 

 pedigree became a question of very great importance. As the 

 search for it would occupy more space, in detail, than I can give 

 to it in these pages, I will here give the references in Wallace's 

 Monthly, where the principal correspondence may be found: Vol. 

 XIV., p. 510; XV., p. 441; XVL, p. 4,3; and for a complete un- 

 derstanding of the matter the references here given should be 

 carefully examined. 



Mr. S. D. Puett, of Indiana, was the first to give me a starting 

 point in the investigation of the pedigree of this mare. In all 

 that had been said about her I never was able to find a man who 

 really knew anything about her origin, until Mr. Puett gave me 

 the address of Cyrus Romaine, who had owned her when very 

 young and handled her for speed. He says "she was sired by a 

 colt from her own dam, that was got by a Copperbottom stal- 

 lion from Kentucky." lie was not able to give any information 

 about the sire of the dam, and as to the gait of the dam he says: 

 "Her dam was a natural pacer. I cannot say as to her sire, as he 

 was unbroken at the time." He bought the mare at three years 

 old, handled her one year and sold her to Mr. J. J. Alexander, 

 of Montezuma, of the same county (Parke), in 1856. Mr. Alex- 

 ander still owned her in 1860 when she trotted in Louisville, and 

 after his death Williams, his trainer, married his widow and still 

 controlled the mare. Mr. Romaine failed to give the name of 



