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A horse of his wonderful prepotency marks the 

 sweep of centuries instead of years, and cannot 

 do otherwise than lift his mother into the fore- 

 most place of matrons. In her young days 

 Green Mountain Maid led the brood mares at 

 Stony Ford at a trot; she could go no other 



gait. 



Miss Russell 



I place Miss Russell but a shade lower than 

 Green Mountain Maid. She was a gray mare, 

 foaled in 1865; bred by R. A. Alexander; sired 

 by Pilot Jr. ; dam Sally Russell by Boston ; sec- 

 ond dam Maria Russell by Thornton's Rattler; 

 third dam Miss Shepherd by Stockholder ; fourth 

 dam Miranda by Topgallant; and fifth dam by 

 imported Diomed. She spent all her life under 

 the trees of Woodburn, and died full of years and 

 crowned with fame. J. H. Wallace questioned 

 the pedigree of Sally Russell, and in a letter sent 

 to me for publication Superintendent Brodhead 

 gave a concise history of the controversy : " Long 

 before the registration of trotting pedigrees 

 passed from the hands of Mr. Wallace he made 

 an attack on the pedigree of Sally Russell, the 

 grand-dam of Maud S. All the facts in regard 

 to the pedigree were brought out and its authen- 



