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that great establishment. During all these years, and until Palo 

 Alto Farm was established, Woodburn was the largest establish- 

 ment in this country. With thousands of broad acres of the most 

 productive soil, with the possession and control of money with- 

 out limit, and with the experiences of forty years in which to 

 select and breed only to the best, it is the natural and reasonable 

 expectation of everybody interested in the question of breeding 

 the trotter to look to Woodburn as leading all other establish- 

 ments in the whole world in th3 production of first-class trotters. 

 And what has Woodburn done? With her experiences of forty 

 years, with all her broad acres and boundless wealth, up to the 

 close of 1896 she has produced just four trotters with records of 

 2:15 or better. Instead of leading all others, she is at the wrong 

 end of the procession, and if we consider the proportional advan- 

 tages involved, we find that "all others," little and big, are lead- 

 ing her. By referring to the above list of breeders that have 

 produced three or more with records of 2:15 or better, we find 

 that Henry N. Smith has produced thirteen, that William Cor- 

 bett, from his little stud in California, has produced nine, and 

 that the late William H. Wilson, of Cynthiana, Kentucky, from 

 his little band of mares, and without either broad acres or money, 

 has produced eight within the past twelve or fifteen years, and 

 -all except one by the same horse. This places Mr. Wilson first 

 among all Kentucky breeders. Jn the short period of its exist- 

 ence Glenview Farm produced six, and the quite unpretentious 

 farmer, Mr. Timothy Anglin, produced five; W. C. France and 

 Colonel R. G. Stoner produced four each the same number as 

 Woodburn but they did not require forty years to accomplish 

 it. Thus the breeding world, with "the little fellows 7 ' on top, 

 has gone away ahead and left Woodburn to mumble over her 

 "tin cups," and exult in the many triumphs she has won against 

 the watch in 2:30. The policy of Woodburn for years past 

 seems to have been to hold the lead of Kentucky breeders in 

 the production of 2:30 trotters, and to this end the youngsters 

 are put in training in the early spring and kept at it till the frosts 

 come, when such of them as are sure to win are brought out and 

 started against the watch, for a "tin cup," and these are the vic- 

 tories that Woodburn wins. Nobody has ever heard of Wood- 

 burn entering a youngster in a stake where he would have to win 

 on his merits. That would be bringing him down to an equality 

 with the colts of such people as William H. Wilson, Colonel E. 



