WOODBURN FARM ALEXANDER 



" As regards the age of Sally Russell, and there 

 being no bid for her in 1868 at sale, the following 

 are the facts: 



1862 Barren 



1863 Slipped foal to imp. Scythian 



1864 Slipped foal to Alexander's Abdallah 



1865 and 1866 bred to imp. Australian 



(Australian was an uncertain foal 

 getter). 



1868 Bred to imp. Australian. April 29 

 was her last service and she was 

 Sally Russell. { bred regularly until sold on June 



27, 1868, and having refused, it 

 was presumed she was in foal. She 

 was sold June 27, 1868 to J. G. Bal- 

 lantyne, now of Pulaski, Tennessee, 

 and, as he writes me, * killed herself 

 soon after on the farm of Mr. 

 Gratz.' We have mares that have 

 foals but once in five or six years." 



The evidence which Woodburn collected and 

 which I published from time to time convinced every 

 intelligent and unprejudiced man that Sally Russell 

 was a daughter of Boston. 



January 7, 1893, Mr. Brodhead wrote to me: 



" Doubtless you have read J. H. Wallace's tirade 

 on the Maud S. pedigree. I intend to bring the pedi- 

 gree before the Executive Committee of the Ameri- 

 can Trotting Register Association on January 17, 

 and write to ask that you send me the original state- 

 ments of witnesses that I sent you in 1883, if you 

 have preserved them. I can prove the pedigree be- 

 yond a doubt with what I have, but it would be well 

 to have the statements of Gresham, Dillon, etc. The 

 matter is hardly worth the trouble, but I want to 

 shut the old skunk's mouth in an official way, and 



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