RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



unteer, and third dam Black Bess (dam of Gloster, 

 2.17) by Stockbridge Chief. These are resolute 

 trotting lines judiciously interwoven, and Moko early 

 gave proof of speed-producing power. As a three- 

 year-old he was bred to three mares, and one of the 

 three foals was Fereno, who as a six-year-old trotted 

 to a record of 2.05^. Another was Mobel, who 

 trotted to a three-year-old record of 2.i6f, and to 

 a five-year-old record of 2.ioJ. Chestnut Belle, the 

 dam of Mobel, is a great producing mare by the 

 great producing stallion Red Wilkes, and we nat- 

 urally look for speed-transmitting power to be in- 

 tensified in him. Lizzie Sprague, the dam of 

 Chestnut Belle, is a producing daughter of the once- 

 famous trotter Governor Sprague, 2.2oJ, and her 

 dam was by Gilroy, thoroughbred son of the four- 

 mile race horse, Lexington. Mr. Harkness is an 

 advocate of action-sustaining blood, as well as of 

 action-giving blood. Walnut Hall, who as a five- 

 year-old trotted to a record of 2.o8j, is an example 

 of the good effects of interweaving kindred strains 

 of merit. Conductor, his sire, trotted to a record 

 of 2.14^, and is by Electioneer (son of Hamble- 

 tonian and Green Mountain Maid), out of Sontag 

 Mohawk, the famous producing daughter of Mo- 

 hawk Chief, son of Rysdyk's Hambletoman. Sontag 

 Nellie, the dam of Sontag Mohawk, was by To- 

 ronto Sontag, he by Toronto Chief, out of Sontag, 

 an old-time trotting mare by Harris's Hambletonian. 

 Mollie Yeager, dam of Walnut Hall, is by Red 



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