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among brood mares as her daughter, IMaud S., 

 was among trotters. Her pedigree at one time 

 was assailed ; but it was established to the satis- 

 faction of every reasonable man that her dam, 

 Sally Russell, was the thoroughbred daughter 

 of Boston and that her second dam, Maria Rus- 

 sell, was a celebrated show mare by Thornton's 

 Rattler. 



Water witch, bay mare, foaled 1859, and by 

 Pilot Jr. out of Fanny by Kinkead's St. Law- 

 rence, second dam Brenda, represented to be 

 thoroughbred, was another prolific mare. She 

 was put to breeding at five years old, and pro- 

 duced 19 foals that lived. Six of these ob- 

 tained records, — Mambrino Gift, 2.20; Scotland, 

 2.2o|-; Viking, 2.19!; Waterloo, 2.19^ ; Wave- 

 let, 2.24|-; and Warder, 2.2 9 J. Scotland, who 

 was gelded, was by the renowned thoroughbred 

 stallion Bonnie Scotland, imported from Eng- 

 land, and whose dam. Queen Mary, is one of the 

 greatest fountains of speed in the English stud 

 book. This gelding illustrated how speed at one 

 gait can be utilized at another gait. The sons and 

 daughters of Waterwitch rank high as producers 

 of speed. The blood of the old mare is breeding 

 on with striking force. Tackey, Dahlia, Diana, 



