RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



ford, thoroughbred son of Koskiusko; second dam 

 the Singleton mare, who possessed great individu- 

 ality. The memorable turf campaign of Wedge- 

 wood was in 1880, when he defeated such trotters 

 as Katie Middleton, Deck Wright, Kentucky Wilkes, 

 Patchen, Iron Age, Knox Boy, Driver, and Sheridan, 

 and retired from the track with a record of 2.19. 

 Like Woodford Mambrino, the other son of Wood- 

 bine, he was a very determined trotter. Favonia, 

 who was out of Fadette by Alexander's Abdallah, 

 she out of Lightsome, thoroughbred daughter of 

 imp. Glencoe, was one of the greatest of the twenty- 

 one trotters from the loins of Wedgewood. Her 

 record of 2.15 was made to high-wheel sulky in 

 a bruising campaign. Lightsome was the dam of 

 the famous race horses, Nevada and Salina, thus 

 demonstrating the vitality of her line. She disproved 

 the truth of the old theory of the Arabs, that the 

 mare is simply a vase in which the seeds sprout, and 

 that she exercises no influence over the character 

 of the fruit. Dame Wood, a daughter of Wedge- 

 wood, bred to Ashland Wilkes, who traced through 

 his dam to the high-class thoroughbred, imp. Knight 

 of St. George, produced John R. Gentry, a wonder- 

 fully handsome horse with a pacing record of 2.00^. 

 The blood of Wedgewood is breeding on through 

 eighteen sons which are sires, and sixteen daughters 

 which are dams, of speed. 



The light-harness foundation in Tennessee, a sad- 

 dle-horse State, was laid by such stallions as Enfield, 



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