260 HUMANE HORSE-TRAINING 



almost a failure, it needed only the proper blend of blood 

 from some other source to make it superlatively great. 

 After Maxie Cobb, among American champion trot- 

 ting stallions came Axtell, 2 mins. 12 sees, as a three- 

 year-old. Through his son Axworthy, three-year-old, 

 2 mins. 15! sees., Axtel has made a great name for 

 himself as a progenitor, for Axworthy as a sire and a 

 progenitor is very hard to beat. He heads in the matter 

 of daughters that are the dams of 2 mins. 10 sec. trotters. 

 His son, Guy Axworthy, is the only sire of two 2 mins. 

 trotters : Lee Axworthy, i min. 58^ sees., and Arion 

 Guy, i min. 59^ sees. Another son, Dillon Axworthy, 

 three-year-old record, 2 mins. ioj sees., is by far the 

 greatest speed sire of his age, 2 mins. 10 sees, on the 

 trot being the standard, and his stock are almost uniformly 

 colt trotters of the best sort, they having at one time 

 and another held the record for three-year-olds (2 mins. 

 2f sees.), for two-year-old geldings (2 mins. 7^ sees.), 

 and for three-year-olds in a race (2 mins. 3^ sees.), those 

 marks being made, respectively, by Sister Bertha, Nor- 

 man Dillon and Miss Bertha Dillon. Lee Axworthy 

 made a record no other horse ever approached in his 

 first season in the stud, sixteen of his first crop taking 

 2 mins. 30 sees., or better records as two-year-olds, and 

 Lee Axworthy is a great-grandson of Axtell. 



