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the brother of Planet, forced his way into the 

 Trotting Register by siring Lucile, 2.21, and 

 Rigolette, 2.22. He also is the sire of a 

 speed-producing dam. 



I have elaborated the pedigree of Dame 

 Winnie in order to show that she was not from 

 dead or cast-off lines. She traces to progenitors 

 who are at the foundation of the thoroughbred 

 structure, and which have strengthened it from 

 decade to decade. Her germ plasms, however, 

 must have had a plastic bent to allow her to 

 become such a conspicuous mother of trotters. 

 It is a striking fact that Fanny G., the second 

 dam of Alma Mater, should also be the second 

 dam of Dame Winnie. Liz Mardis, by imported 

 Glencoe, was her first foal, and Estella, by im- 

 ported Australian, was her tenth foal. 



Beulah was a bay mare, foaled in 1881, and by 

 Harold, dam Sally B. by Lever, thoroughbred 

 son of Lexington and Levity by imported 

 Trustee ; second dam by old Pilot, sire of Pilot 

 Jr. She is the dam of Beuzetta, 2.o6f, by 

 Onward; Early Bird, 2.10, by Jay Bird; Honey 

 H., 2.28f ; Juanita, 2.29; Roberta A., 2.29^; and 

 Judex, 2.29^. Here are six trotters, but only 

 Early Bird and Beuzetta can be regarded as high- 



