26 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



I also saw the same day a mare whose descrip- 

 tion was hastily jotted down : " Venus, chestnut 

 mare, bloodlike head and neck ; in foal by Sidney ; 

 hurt in race and left fore leg club-footed ; has 

 length and stands 15 hands; got by Captain 

 Webster, son of Williamson's Belmont; dam by 

 Kentucky Hunter. Venus is the dam of Adonis. 

 One of her foals, called John Goldsmith, is in the 

 Sandwich Islands and has trotted in the thirties." 



The Kentucky Hunter cross is conjectural. 

 Adonis paced to a three-year-old record of 2.14^, 

 and as a five-year-old took a record of 2.11^. 

 The trotters out of Venus are Cupid, 2.18, and 

 Lea, 2.i8J. Sidney Dillon, the son of Sidney 

 and Venus, was not well handled in the training 

 stable and failed to obtain a record, although he 

 was pure-gaited as a trotter. He was owned by 

 the Pierce Brothers of the Santa Rosa Farm, 

 California, and one of the results of his first 

 modest season in the stud was Dolly Dillon, who 

 trotted to a record of 2.07^. The second season, 

 a mare called Lou Milton by Milton Medium, 

 son of Happy Medium, was bred to him, and the 

 fruit was a dark chestnut filly born in the spring 

 of 1898, who grew into a powerfully muscled 

 clean-cut mare of 15.1^ hands, and who won 



