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2.2 5f, and as this was fast for those days general 

 attention was attracted to the sire. Steinway 

 never reduced his record, but was taken to Cali- 

 fornia, where he sired a high rate of speed. More 

 pacers than trotters came from him ; and con- 

 spicuous among his pacers are Klatawah, 2.05I ; 

 W. Wood, 2.07; Agitato, 2.09; and Cricket, 2.10. 

 One of his sons, Charles Derby, who trotted to a 

 record of 2.20, is also a sire of fast pacers, — Don 

 Derby, 2.06; Much Be'iter, 2.07J; and Derby 

 Princess, 2.08^. Santa Ciaus, bay horse, foaled in 

 1874, dam Lady Thorn Jr. by Williams's Mam- 

 brino by Ericsson, son of Mambrino Chief; second 

 dam Kate by Highland Chief by Mambrino Chief, 

 was the greatest son of Strathmore. The first time 

 I saw him he was called Count Kilrush, and he 

 showed as a three-year-old a high rate of speed on 

 the track of Colonel West at Georgetown. In 

 December, 1877, John W. Conley took the colt 

 to California, where he was sold to P. A. Finegan, 

 and his name changed to Santa Claus. At Sac- 

 ramento, in 1879, he trotted to the five-year-old 

 record, 2.18, and in 1881 and 1882 was campaigned 

 in the East by O. A. Hickok, where he defeated 

 such horses as Edwin Thorne, Piedmont, Wedge- 

 wood, Voltaire, Hannis, Adele Gould, and Fanny 



