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class. As a three-year-old Beuzetta won the 

 Kentucky Futurity, worth $31,430, for her owner, 

 E. W. Ayers of Woodford County, Kentucky, 

 and took a record of 2.I2J. Early Bird is a 

 producing sire. The blood of Lexington and 

 Trustee has proved speed-sustaining blood in 

 other trotters of renown. 



Primrose was a bay mare, foaled in 1865; by 

 Alexander's Abdallah, dam Black Rose by Tom 

 Teenier ; second dam by Cannon's Whip ; and 

 third dam by Robin Grey. It was my good 

 fortune to see her often at Woodburn, where 

 she died, and her sister, Malmaison, dam of 

 Malice, Manetta, Manfred, and Irma G. Her 

 first foal was Princeps (1870), by Woodford 

 Mambrino, and he passed to R. S. Veech and 

 made a great name at Indian Hill Stock Farm, 

 near Louisville. He is the sire of 47 trotters, 

 including Greenlander, 2.12, and Trinket, 2.14; 

 of five pacers and of 40 sires and 44 dams of speed. 

 Primrose is the dam of six trotters and of 10 sires 

 of trotters. She died in March, 1893, leaving a rec- 

 ord for uniformity which is equalled by but few. 



Lark, bay mare, foaled in 1875, by Abdallah 

 Mambrino, dam by Norman, has contributed 

 eight trotters to the 2.30 list, three of which have 



