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and sulky weighing over 300 pounds. She is a 

 source of speed. The seventh foal of Green 

 Mountain Maid, a colt, died of a broken leg. 

 The brown filly Elaine came in 1874. She was 

 the champion four-year-old trotter of 1878, with 

 a record of 2.24J. She was sold to Leland Stan- 

 ford, in whose hands she reduced her record to 

 2.20, and developed into a great brood mare. 

 Bred to General Benton, she produced Elsie, dam 

 of five in the list, including Palita, 2.16, and Rio 

 Alto, 2.16^. Bred to Ansel, she produced An- 

 selma, 2.29!^. Bred to Norval, she produced Nor- 

 laine, who was the champion yearling trotter of 

 1887, with a record of 2.3 1|. Bred to Palo Alto, 

 she produced Palatine, 2.18, and Iran Alto, 2.12^, 

 a producing sire. Elaine was true to her dam, 

 the great mother of trotters. In 1876 Green 

 Mountain Maid gave birth to a chestnut colt, 

 Mansfield, who trotted to a record of 2.26 after 

 being used in the stud. He is a sire of trotters 

 and of the sires and dams of trotters. The 

 brown filly, Elise, was born in 1877. She 

 capped her hip as a yearling, and was put to 

 breeding. She is in the great brood-mare list. 

 Elite, a bay filly, the foal of 1878, trotted half- 

 miles in her work in 1.09, and passed to Wood- 



