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best daughter of Annabel was Estabella by 

 Alcantara by George Wilkes. Prince Regent, 

 2.16^, a great four-year-old, and Heir at Law, 

 2.12 at the trot and 2.05I at the pace, were 

 the result of Estabella's union with Mambrino 

 King, son of Mambrino Patchen, son of Mam- 

 brino Chief. A glance at the history of this 

 mare and her descendants strengthens the con- 

 viction that excellence is the outcome of the 

 intercrossing of kindred strains of pronounced 

 merit. 



Sprite, who is in the great brood-mare list, was 

 a chestnut of 16 hands, foaled in 1872, and by 

 Belmont out of Waterwitch by Pilot Jr. She 

 is the dam of four with records, three of which 

 are by Electioneer, son of Hambletonian, and 

 two of these. Egotist and Electrite, are abundant 

 speed sires. Emma Arteburn by Mambrino 

 Patchen out of Jennie Johnson, thoroughbred 

 daughter of Sweet Owen, produced to Nutwood 

 the mare Mystic, dam of Fred Kohl, 2.07!, ^^^ 

 Myster), 2.1 7I She also produced St. Arnaud, 

 sire of Reina, 2.12!; Judge Keeler, 2.14; and 

 Mercedes, dam of Harriet Clay, who, bred to 

 Alcyone (son of George Wilkes and Alma Mater 

 by Mambrino Patchen), gave us Harrietta, 2.09f, 



