46 RACEALONG 



bred horse Williamson's Belmont. In 1929, however, 

 it was established that Flora the dam of Lillian 

 Wilkes was by Langford out of Pet by General 

 Taylor son of the Morse Horse while her next dam 

 Dora was by Red Bill. 



Short-bred dams prevailed in all of the other 

 families.' Mambrino King was the leader in the 

 Mambrino family. His dam had a scant trotting in- 

 heritance. Elyria, his most successful son, comes 

 under the same head. While the Clays were recog- 

 nized as a breed its leaders had badly balanced 

 pedigrees. The same story goes with the Blue Bull, 

 Champion and Morgan families, the only exception 

 among the last named being Daniel Lambert. 



The only way that this can be accounted for is 

 by passing the palm of victory to the dominant males 

 of the families to which they belonged. 



As breeding progressed and the trotting lines mul- 

 tiplied it became apparent that in time leaders would 

 appear with a maternal inheritance as stout as the 

 male lines. One of the first of this flock was foaled 

 in 1911 and became conspicuous when he reduced 

 the yearling record to 2:19. The name of the young- 

 ster was Peter Volo. From that time he was in the 

 public eye. While for a time his rating waned he 

 came back and became a leader. 



Peter Volo reduced the yearling record to 2:19, 

 the two-year-old record to 2:04V2» the three-year-old 

 record to 2:031/2, and the four-year-old record to 

 2:02. All of these records except the yearling were 

 made in races. 



