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a brood mare at Allen Farm. Sclavonic (1890) 

 by King Wilkes is the last foal of Miss Russell, 

 and he has a pacing record of 2.15^. The filly 

 of 1875 did not live. Miss Russell trotted in 

 2.44 as a three-year-old, but was not regularly 

 trained. She was always an object of romantic 

 interest at Woodburn, and bore herself like an 

 aristocratic dame. She was as white as a ghost 

 when she died at the age of 32, leaving a power- 

 ful tribe of performers, which steadily increases 

 with passing generations. 



Beautiful Bells 



I place Beautiful Bells third in the select group 

 of great brood mares. She was black, 15.2, star 

 and strip, off hind ankle white, foaled in 1872; 

 bred by L. J. Rose, Sunny Slope, California, 

 and by The Moor ; dam Minnehaha by Bald Chief 

 (Stevens') by Bay Chief (Alexander's), son of 

 Mambrino Chief and the daughter of Keokuk by 

 imported Truffle; second dam Nettie Clay by 

 Cassius M. Clay Jr., 22 ; third dam Colonel Mor- 

 gan Mare by Abdallah (sire of Hambletonian) ; 

 and fourth dam by Engineer 2d, sire of Lady 

 Suffolk, 2.28. The Moor was by Clay Pilot (son 

 of Cassius M. Clay Jr., 20, and Lady Pilot by 



