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trotting stallion of 1892 and a successful sire at 

 Allen Farm. In 1871 Woodbine produced 

 Wedgewood by Belmont, who was out of a 

 daughter of Mambrino Chief; and as he trotted 

 to a record of 2.19, and is noted as a sire of 

 extreme speed, the nick must be regarded as a 

 good one. Dame Wood, the dam of the hand- 

 some and fast pacer, John R. Gentry, 2.ooJ, owned 

 by Edward H. Harriman, was a daughter of 

 Wedgewood. 



Belle Loupe by Brown's Bellfounder, son of 

 imported Bellfounder, gave birth in 1857 to a bay 

 filly by Mambrino Chief which at maturity 

 became, under the name of Belle, one of the 

 famous matrons of the stud book. Bred to 

 Alexander's Abdallah, son of the renowned pro- 

 genitor, Rysdyk's Hambletonian, she foaled in 

 1854 a bay colt, Belmont, who was reserved for 

 procreative tasks at Woodburn. He trotted the 

 half-mile track on the farm in 2.28^, and was 

 placed in the stud in 1869. He was a horse of 

 15.3 hands, of quality, fine carriage, and pre- 

 potency, and he is the head of a numerous and 

 powerful tribe. Nutwood, one of his sons, was 

 a prolific sire of speed, and King Rene, who was 

 by Belmont out of Blandina by Mambrino Chief, 



