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All of the horses went wrong except one called 

 Maggie B. She made her first start at Holyoke, 

 Mass., and finished third to Dewey H. Her next 

 appearance was at Concord, N. H., where she was 

 unplaced. After this race she dropped a dead foal. 



Maggie B. made three other starts that season. 

 She won at Athol in 2:22^4 and Westfield in 2:19iA. 

 She also won two heats in a race at Brockton. After 

 that race Maggie B. and the white stable disap- 

 peared. 



The inevitable leak followed. Before it did Maggie 

 B. was bred to Alcander and hid away on a farm 

 near Middlebury, Vt. At that point she was located 

 and identified as Ella T. 



When the man in charge of the mare learned he 

 had Ella T., he said that her owner would never see 

 the Alcander colt if she remained on his place. The 

 Clinton man did not trust him. He sent for the mare 

 a few weeks before- the colt was due. Two days after 

 Ella T. arrived at Clinton the barn in which she was 

 kept was destroyed by fire. Ella T. went with it. 



In 1867, the year Dexter reduced the world's rec- 

 ord for trotters to 2:171/4-, Oliver Crooks, who lived 

 on Long Island near Newtown Creek, had a yearling 

 colt by Hambletonian out of a mare by One Eyed 

 Kentucky Hunter. He was a promising youngster 

 but before he could be developed, litigation tied up 

 the Crooks estate. The Hambletonian colt disap- 

 peared. Subsequently it was learned that he was hid 

 in a dark stable and went blind. That was all that 

 was heard of him until the early eighties when a 



