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formers up to January I, 1906, are the following, selected from 

 a list of about two thousand : Alcantara 2.23, by George Wilkes 

 2.22 ; Baron Wilkes 2.18, by George Wilkes 2.22 ; Brown Hal 

 2.12^, by Tom Hal; Chimes 2.30!, by Electioneer; Electioneer, 

 by Hambletonian 10; George Wilkes 2.22, by Hambletonian 10 ; 

 Happy Medium 2.32-^-, by Hambletonian 10; McKinney 2.nJ, 

 by Alcyone 2.27; Onward 2.25^, by George Wilkes 2.22 ; Red 

 Wilkes 2.40, by George Wilkes 2.22 ; Robert McGregor 2.17^, 

 by Major Edsall 2.29 ; Simmons 2.28, by George Wilkes 2.22. 



The list of famous American trotting or pacing brood mares is 

 a very long one, there being over four thousand of more or less 

 distinction at this time. Three of these mares well deserve to 

 be placed at the head of this list. 



Beautiful Bells, by The Moor, dam Minnehaha, was foaled 

 in 1872. She was bred by L. J. Rose in California, though 

 owned at Palo Alto by Leland Stanford, where she dropped her 

 first foal in 1880 to the service of Electioneer. She produced 

 trotters of great merit, either by Electioneer or his sons. On 

 her sire's side she was a Pilot, on the dam's a Mambrino. 



Green Mountain Maid was foaled in 1862. She was bred by 

 Samuel Conklin of Middletown, New York. Her sire was Harry 

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

 and white hind ankles, and stood 1 5 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 Elec- 

 tioneer, one of America's most prepotent sires. Green Moun- 

 tain 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." 



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 133 trotters 

 and 35 pacers, while Maud S. by Harold, was her most famous 

 daughter. 



