14 The Horse- Breeders' Guide and Hand JSook. 



BERTRAM, 



(WINNER OF THE JERSEY DERBY AND MONMOUTH SEQUEL STAKES 

 AT LONG BRANCH IN 1876, 



Will serve mares at Lexington, -ffy., at $25 the season and $1.00 to the 

 Groom, dams of Winners free. Application to Dr. E. M. Norwood, 

 Lexington, 



BERTRAM, by Kentucky, the best son of Lexington, bred by Hon. A. Belmont, Nursery 

 Stud, Babylon, Long Island, foaled 1873, dam imp. Bernice by Stockwell, winner of the 

 Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger in 1852. Second dam, Braxy by Moss Trooper 

 winnea of the Queen's plates at Doncaster and Lincoln, out of the famous Queen Mary 

 dam of Blink Bonny, Bonnie Scotland, etc. , by Gladiator. Bertram ran only one race 

 at two years old ; was unplaced in the Champagne stakes at Jerome Park, three-quar- 

 ters of a mile, won by Virginius in 1:19. At three years old started four times; was 

 unplaced in the Wither's stake, one mile, won by his stable companion, Fiddlesticks, in 

 1 :46. Some place, won Club purse, one mile and a furlong, for maiden three-year-olds, 

 in 2:01, beating Woodland, Leamington II., Vigil and others. Long Branch, won the 

 Jersey Derby, one and a half miles, in 2 :44, beating Fiddlesticks, Rappa'hannock and 

 Fugitive. Same place, won the Monmouth Sequel stakes, two miles in 3:45, beating- 

 Woodland and Shirley; in this race he carried 123 Ibs. As a four-year-old started in 

 twenty races, won three, was second in three and third in two. Won handicap 

 purse, one mile, at Saratoga, with 113 Ibs., in 1 :46|, track heavy. Same place, won sell- 

 ing purse, oue mile, 111 Ibs., in 1:43, beating Dan K. and three others. Same place, 

 won handicap purse, one and quarter miles, 114 Ibs. in 2:14J, beating Courier and two 

 others, track very muddy. At Baltimore, started in a race of mile beats with seven 

 horses; won the first heat in 1:45, and was crowded through the fence in the second, 

 falling and crippling his jockey. He could not ha^e lost the race. This closed his 

 turf career. Bertram has a double cross of imp. Glencoe, and traces through both 

 dam and sire to the famous Web by Waxy, own sister to Whalebone, Whisker, etc. ; 

 his dam is by the great Stockwell, and his great grandam, Queen Mary, was the dam 

 of Balrownie, Bonnie Scotland, Blink Bonny, the dam of Blair Athol. No descendant 

 of Queen Mary has ever failed to reproduce itself. Bertram is a blood bay, 16 hands 

 high, with small star in forehead, black points a finely shaped horse all over, with 

 the best of legs and feet. His immense substance a'nd power and winning strains of 

 blood should make him a desirable stallion. He has several crosses of Whalebone and 

 "Whisker, two of the best sons of Waxy, by Pot 8o's, son of Eclipse. 



