WOODBURN FARM ALEXANDER 



his hind leg severely. It was for this reason that a 

 record was not put on him. Wallace made frequent 

 attacks on Woodburn pedigrees, and, under date of 

 September 6, 1887, Samuel J. Look, a well-known 

 horseman, wrote to me from Louisville: 



' There has appeared every now and then in Wal- 

 lace's Monthly the statement that the late R. A. 

 Alexander had imposed upon him spurious pedigrees. 

 Those who knew him know that no man in Kentucky 

 in his time was so well posted in pedigrees, and 

 none was more careful and thorough in his investiga- 

 tions. He made no mistakes. He was the one man 

 that sharpers avoided." 



Miss Russell was a gray mare foaled in 1865, and 

 by Pilot Jr., dam Sally Russell by Boston, sire of 

 Lexington; second dam Maria Russell, by Thorn- 

 ton's Rattler; third dam Miss Shepherd by Stock- 

 holder; fourth dam Miranda by Topgallant, and 

 fifth dam by imp. Diomed. After her son Nutwood 

 and her daughter Maud S. had obtained prominence, 

 persistent attempts were made to cloud the pedigree 

 of her dam, Sally Russell. April 13, 1883, Lucas 

 Brodhead wrote to Colonel S. D. Bruce, my asso- 

 ciate, editor of the " American Stud Book " : 



" My attention has just been called to Wallace's 

 attack on the pedigree of Sally Russell. The old 

 scamp knows that you lost in the fire all of your 

 original letters and papers, on which you obtained 

 the data for the first volume of your * Stud Book.' 



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