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racing career at Hartford when he won the $10,000 

 Charter Oak Purse. 



Chilcoot was bred at Walnut Hall Farm and came 

 honestly by his speed and gameness. He was by San 

 Francisco out of Chimes Girl, a daughter of Chimes 

 and the Wood's Hambletonian mare Minnequa Maid 

 which also produced the great race mare Night- 

 ingale, 2:08, that won the Charter Oak Purse in 

 1891 to high wheel sulky, after a nine heat battle 

 with Little Albert, Abbie V., Realman, Prodigal, Miss 

 Alice and Frank N. 



Ed Geers in his ''Experience with the Trotters and 

 Pacers" stated that as a test of speed, gameness and 

 endurance, the Charter Oak of 1891 will go down in 

 turf history as the most remarkable event ever 

 trotted. This, however, was not the only great race 

 that was placed to the credit of Nightingale as at 

 Chillicothe, Ohio, she won after a six heat contest 

 with Little Albert, Ryland T., Charleston and Lake- 

 wood Prince in 2:12. In 1893 Nightingale also won a 

 seven heat race at Buffalo defeating Alix and Green- 

 leaf and placed the three mile record of the world at 



6:551/2- 

 In 1894 Nightingale won at Buffalo at two miles 



from Greenlander in 4:361/^, the world's race record 



for the distance, while in 1895 she continued her 



career by defeating Azote and Klamath at Fresno, 



Cal. in February. After coming east she won at Fort 



Wayne, Ind. in 2:10 and at Terre Haute in 2:08, her 



record, defeating Onoqua, Dandy Jim, David B. and 



Anderson's Nightingale. Nightingale's color was a 



