Other Greai Producing Mares 261 



Marguerite, a bay mare, foaled 1876; by Ken- 

 tucky Prince, dam Young Daisy (dam of Prince 

 Lavalard, 2.1 if, Wellington, 2.20, and Graylight, 

 2.i6j) by Strideaway (son of Black Hawk Tele- 

 graph and the famous pacer Pocahontas by Iron's 

 Cadmus), is the dam of six, Marguerite A., 2.12^; 

 Axtellion, 2.1 5^; Axworthy (3), 2.15^; King 

 Darlington, 2.16; Mary A., 2.27^; and Colonel 

 Axtell (2), 2.30. She is descended from producers 

 of a high rate of speed in male and female line, 

 and is a great producer herself. 



Rosebud is a bay mare of 15.3, foaled 1881, 

 by General Washington (son of General Knox 

 and Lady Thorn), dam Goldsmith Maid, 2.14, by 

 Alexander's Abdallah. Her mother trotted 114 

 heats in 2.20 and better, when 2.20 was a high 

 measure of speed. When I saw Rosebud at 

 Fashion Stud Farm, in 1887, her breeder and 

 owner, Henry N. Smith, told me that she was 

 nervous like her mother, and required kicking 

 straps in harness. She had, in 1885, a filly by 

 Jay Gould, which the mother did not nurse, and 

 it was raised by hand on milk and lime-water. 

 This filly showed a fine gait as a yearling, but 

 she got frightened and died of a broken spirit. 

 Rosebud is in the great brood-mare list as the 



