MARSHLAND AND SHULTSHURST 



paid a visit to Darlington, " which nestles in a fertile 

 and fruitful valley under the lee of the mountains, 

 beside the clear and rapid-running Ramapo River," 

 and of Young Daisy he wrote: 



" She is a fine, raking-looking, flea-bitten gray, 

 with a slashing way of going. Marguerite, now six 

 years old, is a very handsome bay mare, long and 

 low, fast and a hard-sticker. She is one for a long 

 day, and looks like a stallion about the head and 

 neck, as the best mares, such as Pocahontas, Idle- 

 wild, and the German wonder, Kincsem, often do." 



A. B. Darling died and his breeding stud was dis- 

 banded. The successful bidder at the sale for Ax- 

 worthy was John H. Shults, and he was fortunate 

 in securing the chestnut son of Axtell and Mar- 

 guerite. At Shultshurst Axworthy has had access to 

 mares of high class, and he has proved a wonderful 

 sire of early speed. His daughter, Alta Axworthy, 

 trotted as a two-year-old to a record of 2.15!, and 

 as a three-year-old in 1904 was a great stake winner, 

 and reduced her record to 2.10^. The fastest four- 

 year-old trotter of 1904, Tom Axworthy, 2.o8f, is 

 by Axworthy, out of Mr. Shults's favorite brood 

 mare, Nell, dam of eight in the list, among them 

 the trotting mare Belle Vara, 2.o8f , and the three 

 pacers, Vassar, 2.07; Susie T., 2.09!, and Ambi- 

 dexter, 2.nJ. Axworthy, it will be observed, con- 

 trolled the gait in his union with the famous speed- 

 producer. Mr. Shults has contended that speed is 



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