CHAPTER XXIV 



OTHER GREAT PRODUCING MARES, INCLUDING 

 CLARA, ALMA MATER, AND DAME WINNIE 



I PLACE Clara high in the group of great 

 brood mares for the reason that extreme speed 

 at the trot has come from her. She was a black, 

 14.3 hands, foaled in 1848, and died in 1875 ; by 

 Seely's American Star, dam the McKinstry 

 mare (dam of Shark, 2.27! to saddle). In 1858, 

 when ten years old, she produced, at the Jona- 

 than Hawkins Farm in Orange County, the brown 

 colt Dexter by Hambletonian. He was gelded, 

 and trotted to a record of 2.17^. He was a posi- 

 tive champion when tracks and sulkies were slow, 

 and I believe would have transmitted a high rate 

 of speed if he had been kept entire. Lady Dex- 

 ter, sister of Dexter, was born in 1861. She was 

 a bay mare of 15 hands and was in breeding 

 ranks at Stony Ford. She is the dam of Dexter 

 Prince and Prince George, both by Kentucky 

 Prince. Dexter Prince passed to Palo Alto, 

 where he showed a very high rate of speed as a 



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