262 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



dam of four trotters. One of these, Artus, is a 

 producing sire. Stranger, the brother of Rose- 

 bud, is the sire of 39, among them Colonel Kuser, 

 2.1 li and Ballona, 2.1 1 J. Boodle, by Stranger, 

 out of Bride by Jay Gould, she out of Tiny by 

 Ethan Allen, trotted to a record of 2.1 2|, and 

 among his trotters are Ethel Down, 2.10, and 

 Thompson, 2.14! Colonel Kuser, another son 

 of Stranger, is the sire of Belle Kuser, 2.08^. 

 The blood of Goldsmith Maid is breeding on 

 better than I at one time expected that it 

 would do. 



Lady Russell, gray mare, foaled 1882, by 

 Harold, dam Miss Russell, was early put to 

 breeding, and she is the dam of five in the 

 list — Expedition, 2.15I, sire of 40, including 

 Mary P. Leyburn, 2.ii\\ Alcatraz, 2.i6f at the 

 pace; Re-Election, 2.2 7 J (sire of Refina, 2.08^); 

 Electrix, 2.28! (dam of Proscription, 2.24!, and 

 Impeachment, 2.i8|^); and Lady Kin, 2.30, trial 

 2.23. Rossignol, by King Wilkes, out of Lady 

 Russell, is a brood mare at Allen Farm, and the 

 dam of Ka, 2.23!; Krishna, 2.24I; and Kamala, 

 2.28, — all by Kremlin, son of the brother of Lady 

 Russell. This is a wonderful record for a mare 

 killed by lightning at eleven years old. 



