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a record of 2:28| in her old age, and that is a full sister to 

 Dexter, 2:17^. 



Two famous sons of Kentucky Prince are Guy, 2:12, 

 Si:)oflord, 2:18f, that won a $10,000 purse at Hartford last 

 year. In America we have this blood joined with that which 

 produced Dexter, who was far and away the fastest, gamest, 

 most reliable trotter of his time, and that this blood is more 

 than ordinarily potent is seen by the fact that Dictator, 

 Dexter s full brother, has given such wonderfully fast, game, 

 reliable trotters as Jay-Eye-See, 2:10, Phallas, 2:13|, Direct- 

 or, 2:17, and more than a dozen others that have beaten 2:30. 



Ordinary men would have been satisfied with the pos- 

 session of such stallions as Lancelot and America, but Mr. 

 Allen recognized the fact that while they were from strains 

 of blood that had produced very high speed at the trot, his 

 idea was to get as near, relatively, to Maud S. , the fastest 

 trotter in the world, as was possible. With this end in 

 mind he purchased at Woodburn the stallion Yarrow, 

 whose sire is Lord Russell, full brother to Maud S. , and 

 whose dam, Yolande, has given us Yuba, 2:24^, and Yazoo, 

 2:34^. Yolande is a daughter of Belmont, one of the fastest 

 sons of Alexander's Abdallah, so that in Yarrow Mr. Allen 

 has a horse whose lines of blood have been uniformly suc- 

 cessful. Mention has already been made of the fact that 

 Mr. Allen, in selecting brood-mares, had in view the indis- 

 putable fact that trotting blood is on the whole, the most 

 successful in the proj)agation of sj)eed at the trot, and the 

 animals on his place trace back without exception to the 

 best trotting mares in the land. More than this, their near 

 relatives are in every case trotters themselves. He has for 

 instance, Rusina, that is by Belmont out of dam Maud S. ; 

 Maudlien 2:2i5|, by Harold, sire of Maud S.; dam sister to 

 Nutwood, 2:18|; Elista full sister of Elaine, 2:20; Malvasia 

 by Lord Russell, brother to Maud S., out of Malmaison, 

 that produced Mannette, trial 2:16^; Ashima, by Lord Rus- 

 sell, dam Alice West, 2:26, that produced Altamura, 2:30; 

 Salve, by Lord Russell, dam Noonday, her dam Midnight, 



