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R. P. Madison, Clarksville, Tenn. (Octoroon Jr.). 



N. Barber, Clarksville, Tenn. (Dixie). 



Charles Backman, Stony Ford, N. Y. (Electioneer 



125). 

 F. G. Hill, Paris, Ky. (May Queen 2:20). 

 Simmons Bros., Lexington, Ky. (Young Jim, 2009). 

 A. Smith McCann, Lexington, Ky. (Miss Mam- 



brino) . 

 A. J. Alexander, Spring Station, Ky. (Lord Russell 



4677, Primrose, Attorney 1065). 

 Chas. S. Miller, Muscatine, Iowa (Sally). 



The list of names recalls many who did yeoman 

 service in founding the light harness breed. Jonas 

 Seely is the most remote. As the breeder of Ham- 

 bletonian he will always find a place in horse history, 

 still his estimate of the colt and his crippled dam 

 can be easily fixed as he sold both of them to W. M. 

 Rysdyk for $125. Of the other New Yorkers Chas. 

 Backman and Edwin Thorne maintained important 

 farms and sent out a splendid array of stock to rep- 

 resent them. They stood on a par with A. J. Alex- 

 ander who inherited Woodburn Farm in Kentucky 

 from his brother and whose stud contributed the 

 Harold and Alexander's Abdallah strains which 

 appear in the pedigree of Hollyrood Bob. Leland 

 Stanford, Governor of California and United States 

 Senator from that state, built on broad lines at Palo 

 Alto where Electioneer contributed the speed which 

 his owner exploited so successfully. 



Of the others S. A. Brown is the most prominent. 

 He made it possible for D. D. Streeter to breed Peter 



