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champion sire, and his daughters have done much to 

 help the sires of the past quarter of a century in the 

 production of first-class trotters and sires. 



A brother of Maud S. (Lord Russell) got Kremlin, 

 2 mins. 7f sees., champion trotting stallion of his 

 day, and the Kremlin mares are prominent as producers 

 of speed, one of the leading sons of Bingen (Bingara) 

 getting nearly all his good trotters from Kremlin mares, 

 although his fastest, Millie Irwin, 2 mins. 3j sees., is 

 from the Red Wilkes mare. 



The Gaiety Girl was 2 mins. 15^ sees. But the 

 Gaiety Girl is a truly great brood mare, and her blood 

 breeds on, one of her daughters (by Bingen) being the 

 dam of Lee Axworthy, i min. 58^ sees. 



CHAMPION TROTTERS AS SIRES 



American champion stallions have not as a whole 

 proved outstanding successes as sires. Champions in- 

 evitably have a lot taken out of them, even though their 

 track careers are not always extensive. The pace is 

 what does the work, and the faster the pace the greater 

 the drain on the vitality of the horse. So when a Lee 

 Axworthy comes along he does more in his best season, so 

 far as exhausting speed efforts are concerned, than some 

 of his predecessors accomplished in entire careers. 



