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These were animals of substance and fine conforma- 

 tion, and furnished many handsome carriage horses. 

 Belmont was the sire of Nutwood, and Nutwood's 

 descendants are still prominent in the female line. 

 Major Edsall sired Robert McGregor, and the 

 McGregors were, and are, noted for courage and 

 endurance. Cresceus, the one-time champion trotter, 

 belonged to this family, but he was a coarse, rough- 

 gaited, rather bad-tempered horse, and a failure as a 

 sire. 



Dictator, a brother of Dexter, founded a family 

 now represented chiefly by the pacer. Directum I. 



Harold, the sire of Maud S., survives in Kremlin, 

 and mares by Kremlin, bred to Bingen, and his sons 

 have produced some notable horses, Bertini especially. 



Bellini, by Artillery, is a late-comer, and has sired 

 only a few, but those few include Atlantic Express and 

 King Bertini. 



From Strathmore are descended Lou Dillon and 

 Sidney Dillon. This is a small, handsome family, but 

 more productive of pacers than trotters. 



SUMMARY OF TROTTING-BRED FAMILIES 



Practically all trotting-bred families trace back to 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian, and, with two exceptions, they 

 all derive from one or both of the two foremost sons 

 of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, namely, George Wilkes 

 and Electioneer. Of these two branches, that of 

 George Wilkes Is, on the whole, the more important. 

 In many cases, notably In the case of Bingen, leading 

 sires combine the blood of both George Wilkes and 



