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Manette, bay mare, 15.1, foaled August, 1878; 

 bred by J. W. Knox, California; by Nutwood, 

 2.i8f, dam Emblem (sister of Voltaire, 2.20^) 

 by Tattler, 2.26 (son of Pilot Jr. and Telltale, 

 thoroughbred daughter of Telamon) ; second dam 

 Young Portia, by Mambrino Chief, — is by right 

 of inheritance a great producer. Oro Fino, her 

 first foal, by Eros (son of Electioneer), trotted to 

 a record of 2.18, and became a brood mare. 

 Helen T., by Electioneer, the fourth foal of 

 Manette, was used as a brood mare at Bitter 

 Root Farm, the great Montana breeding estab- 

 lishment of Marcus Daly, and she there produced 

 Potential, 2.29J, a sire of speed. Arion, the 

 brother of Helen T., came in 1889, and he is 

 the champion two-year-old trotter, and a growing 

 sire. Athel, the brother of Arion, was born in 

 1890, and Hon. F. P. Olcott paid $25,000 for 

 him at auction to place at the head of his stud at 

 Round Top Farm, at Bernardsville, New Jersey. 

 Thus far the best of Athel's trotters is Bugle, 

 2.1 2^. Manaloa, by Advertiser out of Manette, 

 has a record of 2. 2 64. The rank of Manette as 

 a fountain of speed steadily grows. 



Merry Clay, by Harry Clay 45, dam Ethel- 

 berta, the noted producing daughter of Harold, 



