2o8 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



horse of pure gait, carrying the blood of founda- 

 tion sires, and contributed as much to the glory 

 of Maine as did Thomas B. Reed, or the rugged 

 pines of that stalwart state. In 1891 Nelson 

 took third place in the stallion group, Palo Alto 

 going to the head with a record of 2.o8f, and 

 Allerton being second with a record of 2. 09 J. 



Bashaw 



Bashaw (Green's), whose register number is 

 50, was a black horse, foaled in 1885; bred by 

 Jonas Seely of Orange County, New York, and 

 sired by Vernol's Black Hawk (son of Long 

 Island Black Hawk by Andrew Jackson), dam 

 Belle by Webber's Tom Thumb (a trotter of 

 speed and endurance but of untraced blood); 

 second dam the Charles Kent Mare (dam of Rys- 

 dyk's Hambletonian) by imported Bellfounder. 

 When a suckling he and his dam passed to 

 F. M. Cummings of Muscatine, Iowa, and from 

 him to Joseph A. Green of Muscatine. He died 

 January 25, 1880, leaving behind him quite a 

 family of trotters. The fastest of his trotters was 

 Josephus, 2.19I. One of his entire sons, Hamble- 

 tonian Bashaw, trotted to a record of 2.21 J, and 

 is a producing sire. Twenty-two other sons are 



