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of the list with a record of 2.03!. She was sold 

 by her owner, Morris J. Jones, to F. C. Sayles, of 

 Rhode Island, and died at Mariposa Stock Farm 

 after producing to Handspring, son of Prodigal 

 and Annie Wilton. Alix was full of speed-sus- 

 taining blood. Her sire, Patronage, traced 

 through Pancoast to thoroughbred Woodford, 

 and through Beatrice to the four-mile race-horse, 

 Wagner. Her dam, Atlanta, traced through 

 Attorney to a daughter of Robert Bruce, and 

 through Flirt, her dam, to imported Envoy and 

 imported Glencoe. Atlanta, the dam of Alix, 

 outlived her most distinguished daughter. 



The Abbot, 2.03^ 



The Abbot was a product of Village Farm, 

 East Aurora, New York, and when he rose to 

 championship honors, the ambition of one of our 

 greatest breeders, C. J. Hamlin, was gratified. 

 The Abbot was a bay gelding, 15.1^ hands high ; 

 foaled June 20, 1893; by Chimes (son of Elec- 

 tioneer and Beautiful Bells), dam Nettie King 

 (who trotted to a four-year-old record of 2.20^) 

 by Mambrino King, second dam Nettie Murphy 

 by Hamlin Patchen, and third dam by a son of 

 Kentucky Whip. When the celebrated trainer, 



