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Clay, dam Shanghai Mary. She was a brown mare with star and 

 white hind ankles and stood 15 hands high. At the Stony Ford 

 Farm of Charles Backman she spent most of the twenty-six years 

 of her life, dying in 1888. Her greatest son was Electioneer, 

 one of America's most prepotent sires. Green Mountain Maid 

 was the dam of sixteen foals. In memory of this mare a red- 

 granite monument was erected in 1889 by Mr. Backman "on 

 the spot dedicated to her worth and honored by her dust." 



FIG. 17. Elastic Pointer, 2:06^, by Brown Hal, 2:12^. A pacer and full brother 



of Star Pointer, i : 59!, one of the greatest pacers in history. From photograph, 



by courtesy of National Stockman and Farmer 



Miss Russell, a gray mare foaled in 1865, bred by R. A. Alex- 

 ander at Woodburn, Kentucky, is the third worthy. She was 

 sired by Pilot Jr. and out of Sally Russell, by Boston, and her 

 fifth dam was by the great imported Thoroughbred Diomed. 

 Miss Russell was the dam of eighteen foals. Nutwood, by Bel- 

 mont, her first foal, was her greatest son, he siring one hundred 

 and thirty-three trotters and thirty-five pacers, while Maud S., by 

 Harold, was her 'most famous daughter. Lord Russell, a full 

 brother to Maud S., was a great sire, and among his sons was 

 Kremlin (2:o;|), the champion five-year-old trotter of his day. 



