124 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



was a horse of the show-ring type and a pro- 

 genitor of trotters. The daughters of Belmont 

 also were celebrated for speed-producing quali- 

 ties. One of these was Bicara, dam of Pancoast, 

 2.2 if. Belmont died at Woodburn, November 

 13, 1889, and his stud fee had been advanced 

 from $25 to $500. Sally Anderson was another 

 daughter of Mambrino Chief that found a golden 

 nick in Alexander's Abdallah. Almont, her dis- 

 tinguished son, was thus bred, and he transmitted 

 his remarkable action with impressive uniformity. 

 At Edge Hill, the breeding farm of Colonel 

 Richard West, at Georgetown, Kentucky, I was 

 often called upon to admire the frictionless trot 

 of Almont as he swept around his paddock, and 

 a great future was predicted for him. The op- 

 portunity of the stallion was enlarged when he 

 was transferred to Fairlawn, the breeding farm 

 of General W. T. Withers, and he died leaving 

 scores of producing sons and daughters. Fanny 

 Witherspoon, 2.16^, was his fastest and gamest 

 daughter, and Piedmont, 2.17!, was his best 

 trotting son. Mag Ferguson, the dam of the 

 latter, was by Mambrino Chief, and he taught 

 the lesson that the blood could be doubled with 

 advantage. Clark Chief, sire of Kentucky Prince 



