132 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



thoroughly alive, and the gates to immortality 

 have been forced open. Sally Russell, thorough- 

 bred daughter of Boston, was bred to Pilot Jr., 

 and produced in 1865 the gray filly Miss Russell, 

 who developed into one of the greatest brood 

 mares of the age. The same spring the gray 

 filly Midnight by Pilot Jr. out of Twilight, 

 thoroughbred daughter of Lexington, son of Bos- 

 ton, was born, and she is in the list as the dam of 

 the sensational gelding Jay-eye-see by Dictator, 

 who trotted to a record of 2.10 and paced to a 

 record of 2.o6j; of Electricity by Electioneer, 

 who trotted to a record of 2.17!, and who is a 

 producing sire ; and of Noontide by Harold, who 

 trotted to a record of 2.20^, and is a producing 

 dam. 



Miss Russell was a mare of unusual vitality and 

 fertility. Seventeen of her 18 foals grew to ma- 

 ture form, and she had seen her thirty-second 

 birthday before her heart ceased to beat. She was 

 for more than a quarter of a century a notable fig- 

 ure in the pastures of Woodburn, refusing to as- 

 sociate intimately with other mares grazing under 

 the same trees, and she was the means of swell- 

 ing, by many thousands of dollars, the revenues 

 of A. J. Alexander. She was as much of a queen 



