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burn Farm, where she contributed three trotters 

 to the list Antonio, 1880, was the twelfth foal, 

 and although small, he was truly balanced, with 

 beautiful action. There probably was too much 

 fold of knee for long-contested races, but intense 

 action is desirable in a stallion who is expected 

 to control gait, especially when bred to long- 

 striding mares. Antonio trotted to a record of 

 2.28f after one summer's handling, but showed 

 bursts of 2.12 speed. He died soon after Mr. 

 Backman had refused $30,0x50 for him. The 

 fastest of his 17 trotters is Swift, 2.07. Elista, 

 the fourteenth foal, passed to Allen Farm, where 

 she trotted to a record of 2.2of, and is the dam 

 of Elision, 2.17, and of Kiosk, a producing sire. 

 Elista died young. Elina was the fifteenth foal, 

 and she trotted to a record erf 2.28 before joining 

 brood-mare ranks. Lancelot was the sixteenth 

 and last foal of Green Mountain Maid. I saw 

 him an hour after he was born, and only the 

 greatest watchfulness preserved his life. Novem- 

 ber 1 6, 1888, he was sold as a yearling to Will- 

 iam Russell Allen for $12,500, the largest price 

 ever paid for a trotting yearling up to that date, 

 He trotted to a five-year-old record of 2.23, and 

 previous to being sold to go to Austria sired at 



