RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



highest honors in horse-show competition, and is the 

 sire of fifteen trotters, including Edwin B., 2.12^; 

 Percy, 2.13, and Preston, 2.13^. He also is a sire 

 of pacers. Ponce de Leon was a conspicuous member 

 of the Dreamwold Stud of Thos. W. Lawson. 

 Elvira was a black mare of 15.2, foaled In 1880, and 

 bred at Glenvlew by J. C. McFerran. Her sire was 

 Cuyler by Rysdyk's Hambletonlan, and her dam was 

 Mary Mambrino by Mambrino Patchen; second 

 dam Belle Wagner by Embry's Wagner, son of the 

 great race horse Wagner; third dam Lady Belle 

 by Bellfounder Jr. ; fourth dam Multiflora by Mon- 

 mouth Eclipse, and fifth dam by Kosklusko. I remem- 

 ber her races as a three-year-old and a four-year-old, 

 and can see to this day the gratified smile on the face of 

 her breeder and owner, James C. McFerran, the rough 

 diamond who founded Glenvlew, the great breeding 

 farm on the outskirts of Louisville. Elvira died at 

 Hermitage In the summer of 1889, leaving but two 

 foals. Ponce de Leon, 2.13, and Queensware, 2.25. 

 If she had lived, she probably would have taken 

 rank with her sister Beatrice, dam of the two trot- 

 ters. Patron, 2. 14 J, and Prodigal, 2.16; and of the 

 four sires. Patronage, sire of Allx, 2.03I; Patron, 

 sire of 39 trotters (including Caspian, 2.07I; Ca- 

 racalla, 2.10; Miss Delia Fox, 2.10^, and Bernalda, 

 2.iof ) ; Prodigal, sire of 37 trotters (among them 

 John Nolan, 2.08; Free Giver, 2.1 li; Great Spirit, 

 2. 1 if, and Improvidence, 2.12), and Pangloss, sire 

 of Niece, 2.20|. Two of the daughters of Beatrice 



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