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Woodburn to Blue Grass Park, where he died 

 the property of A. Keene Richards, March 31, 

 1871. Mr. Richards was the importer of the 

 Arabian horse, Mokhladi, the sire of Crockett's 

 Arabian, and of the dam of Sannie G., 2.27. 

 Alexander's Edwin Forrest, a bay horse, foaled 

 in 1851, was by Alexander's Norman, out of a 

 mare by Bay Kentucky Hunter. He sired Billy 

 Hoskins, 2.26^; Champagne, 2.30; and a number 

 of producing sons and daughters. Norman found 

 his best opportunity in Kentucky in mares de- 

 scended directly from the thoroughbred race-horse. 

 His blood is a factor in breeding to-day, but not 

 a controlling factor. 



The Champions 



Grinnell's Champion was a chestnut horse, 

 foaled in 1843, bred by Charles Simonson of 

 Hempstead, Long Island, and got by Almack, son 

 of Mambrino, dam Spirit by Engineer, second 

 dam by American Eclipse. As Engineer, like 

 Mambrino, was a son of Messenger, there was a 

 double tracing to the gray thoroughbred im- 

 ported from England in 1788. As a three-year- 

 old Champion was purchased by William R. 

 Grinnell, who used him in the stud at Aurora, 



