244 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



Pilot, sire of Pilot Jr.), dam Belle of Wabash, 2.40, 

 by Young Bassinger, by Lieutenant Bassinger; 

 second dam by imported William Fourth. The 

 pedigree of Belle of Wabash was questioned by 

 J. H. Wallace, but George C. Stevens of Wiscon- 

 sin, who owned her when she was nursing The 

 Moor, convinced an impartial public that he had 

 correctly recorded it. Beautiful Bells was a high- 

 strung mare with considerable speed at the trot, 

 and she retired from the turf with a record of 2.29^. 

 She was purchased in 1879 by Leland Stanford, 

 and made an enviable reputation as a brood mare 

 at Palo Alto. She was bred almost steadily to 

 Electioneer, and her first foal, Hinda Rose (1880), 

 brown filly, trotted as a yearling to a record of 

 2.36^, as a two-year-old to a record of 2.32, and 

 as a three-year-old to a record of 2.19^. Alta 

 Belle (1881), brown filly, is a producing dam. 

 St. Bel (1882), black colt, trotted in 2.24! at four 

 years old and died in his ninth year at Prospect 

 Hill Stock Farm, Pennsylvania. He was a great 

 producing stallion considering the brevity of his 

 life. Rosemont (1883), bay filly, by Piedmont, is 

 the dam of three trotters and a grand-dam of 

 speed. Chimes (1884), brown colt, by Electioneer, 

 trotted in 2.30! as a three-year-old, and at Village 



