BREEDING FARMS IN THE BERKSHIRES 



hands of Nutwood, a decision that called forth a 

 good deal of unfavorable criticism. He has de- 

 feated all the well-known Kentucky show stallions." 



Time has demonstrated that Alcyone, all things 

 considered, was one of the very greatest of trotting 

 stallions. His blood is breeding on with remark- 

 able force. 



Under date of August 23, 1887, Mr. Wm. H. 

 Fearing wrote me from Newminster Stud, Jobstown, 

 N. J.: 



" I am sorry to announce the death of my mare 

 Estella by Australian. She died at Woodburn Au- 

 gust 20, from blood poisoning, and was in foal at 

 that time by Harold, sire of Maud S. The mare 

 leaves a yearling filly (Ora Mater) by Belmont and 

 a suckling colt, three months old also by Belmont." 



Australian was a richly-bred horse and a noted sire 

 of race horses. Fanny G., the dam of Estella, was by 

 imp. Margrave, out of Lancess by Lance, son of the 

 great four-mile race horse, American Eclipse. The 

 running blood in Alma Mater was of the most vig- 

 orous kind, and her success in producing trotters 

 and the progenitors of trotters strengthens the opin- 

 ion that speed can be utilized at either gait. If A. S. 

 Talbert, who bred Alcyone, or Elizur Smith, whose 

 property he died, had witnessed the triumphs of 

 Sweet Marie in the Grand Circuit of 1904-1906, 

 and especially her victory in the bitterly contested 



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