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sum of $44,000. A purchase at Woodbum, whicli amounted 

 to nearly $25,000, x^receded tliis, and since then he has at 

 various times and places, added to his establishment animals 

 of the choicest breeding, never letting values stop him where 

 the strains of blood rex)resented, were such as he desired. 

 It was this spirit that led him to visit the farm of Robert 

 Bonner not many months ago, and pay $15,000, for Miss 

 Majolica, a full sister to Majolica, record 2:15. 



In the way of stallions at his farm, Mr. Allen has a 

 remarkable lot of horses. His j)remier sire is Lancelot, by 

 Messenger Duroc, dam Green Mountain INIaid, thus making 

 him a full brother to Elaine, 2:20; Daaie Trot, 2:22; Pros- 

 pero, 2:20; Mansfield, 2:26; Storm, 2:26|; Antonio, 2:28J, 

 and Miranda, 2:31. It will be seen that in Lancelot, Mr. 

 Allen has a horse that in blood lines is as nearly a duplicate 

 of Electioneer as could have been x)roduced at the jd resent 

 time, he being out of Electioneer' s dam, and by one of the 

 best sons of the horse that sired Electioneer, so that so far 

 as pedigree is concerned there is but little difference between 

 tlie tw o animals, except in the fact that Lancelot is so young 

 that his success as a sire of trotters is still to be attained. 

 It should be remembered that not only in the male line has 

 the blood of Green Mountain Maid proved wonderfully suc- 

 cessful, but that one of her daughters, Elaine, is already 

 credited with the fastest yearling that the world has ever 

 seen, her daughter IS'orlaine having made a record of 2:31^ 

 at that age. Some of her sons have also been siring trotters 

 that have become distinguished by their perfonnances, and, 

 on the whole, it would be difficult to imagine a better horse 

 than Lancelot, when all the circumstances are taken into 

 consideration. But not content with securing a represent- 

 ative of the blood lines that produced Electioneer, Mr. 

 Allen determined to so equip himself in the matter of stal- 

 lions that by no possibility could he be at any time, through 

 the death of any one of them, seriously impeded in his 

 plans, and with this end in view he purchased America, a 

 black horse by Kentucky Prince, and out of Alma that made 



