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while there bred Creole to Bettie Wilson, whose 

 pedigree can never be established as all of the people 

 who knew her history died before anyone made any 

 inquiries in regard to it. 



In 1867 Bettie Taylor produced her only foal. It 

 was a black filly and named Dixie. She was also the 

 only foal that Creole sired as that spring he was lost 

 in a stable that was destroyed by fire. 



Everybody knows the balance of the pedigree. 

 Nicholas Barker made his daughter, who married 

 Dr. Greenfield, a present of Dixie. She bred her to 

 Madison's Octoroon, Jr. The foal from that mating 

 was known as Lady Duncan. Later on after S. A. 

 Browne purchased her and took her to Michigan her 

 name was changed to Shadow. Shadow was bred to 

 Grand Sentinel and produced Santos, the dam of 

 Peter the Great. 



Shanghai Mary 



There is but one link in the chain of evidence that 

 keeps Shanghai Mary from being dropped out of the 

 list of unknowns. It does not look now as though it 

 would ever be welded unless someone stumbles on a 

 letter from or a diary kept by a wandering boy who 

 traded her to two sheep buyers near Canton, Ohio, 

 in 1850. 



Shanghai Mary made her first step into the pages 

 of horse history in 1869 when John H. Wallace called 

 the attention of Charles Backman to ,a doubt in the 

 pedigree of Green Mountain Maid. When this mare 

 was purchased for $450, Mr. Backman was handed 



