MARCUS DALY AND BITTER ROOT FARM 



dam Lady Graves, the producing daughter of Nut- 

 wood; second dam Lady Babcock, the producing 

 daughter of Whipple's Hambletonian, sire of the 

 dam of Azote, 2.04!. She trotted to a record of 

 2.26, and then became a brood mare. Whipple's 

 Hambletonian was a chestnut horse, foaled in 1861, 

 by Guy Miller (son of Rysdyk's Hambletonian), 

 dam Martha Washington, by Burr's Washington, by 

 Burr's Napoleon. As a yearling he was taken to 

 California by S. B. Whipple, where the best trotter 

 sired by him was Graves, 2.19. I saw this chestnut 

 stallion at San Mateo when he was twenty-nine years 

 old, and he was then a well-preserved horse, with a 

 far-reaching reputation. Eleven of his sons are sires 

 of speed, and twenty-two of his daughters are dams 

 of trotters and pacers. Marcus Daly was a man of 

 resolute purpose and not discouraged by early dis- 

 appointments. Being a man of large means, as well 

 as sound judgment, he was able to buy the best, 

 and Bitter Root Farm became one of the great trot- 

 ting nurseries of the country. In the group of stal- 

 lions were Prodigal, 2.16 (son of Pancoast and 

 Beatrice); Bow Bells, 2.19! (son of Electioneer 

 and Beautiful Bells) ; Ponce de Leon, 2.13 (son of 

 Pancoast and Elvira), and Milroi by Guy Wilkes, 

 out of Manon, 2.21, by Nutwood. In the brood- 

 mare band were Fanny Witherspoon, 2.i6J (by Al- 

 mont, out of "Lizzie Witherspoon by Cough's Wag- 

 ner) ; Belle F., 2.15^ (by Masterlode, out of Belle 

 Hastings by Magna Charta) ; Rapidan, dam of 



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