196 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



of Harold, is the sire of Atlanta, dam of Alix, 

 2.03J. Doubling the blood of Abdallah, son of 

 Mambrino, son of Messenger, gave us an indi- 

 vidual not free from criticism, but a progenitor 

 of extreme speed at the trot and the pace. 



Strathmore 



Strathmore, formerly called Goodwin Watson, 

 was a bay horse, foaled in 1866 ; bred by Aristides 

 Welch of Erdenheim, near Philadelphia ; got by 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian, dam Lady Waltemire, a 

 roadster of celebrity by North American ; second 

 dam by Harris's Hambletonian. He was a horse 

 of substance, a shade over 15 hands, and Mr. 

 Welch used him principally on the road until he 

 sold him, in 1873, to Colonel R. G. Stoner of 

 Bourbon County, Kentucky. He left but three 

 or four foals on the Atlantic seaboard, and one of 

 these was the bay horse Chestnut Hill, dam Polly 

 Barber by Bully King, son of George M. Patchen. 

 He passed to A. W. Griswold of New York, who 

 drove him on the road and raced him to a limited 

 extent. At Utica, in August, 1879, he trotted to 

 a record of 2.22^-. Stein way, bay colt by Strath- 

 more out of Abbess by Albion, trotted in August, 

 1879, at Lexington, to a three-year-old record of 



