RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



and the result was the very handsome and resolute 

 trotting stallion Fred Kohl, 2.07!. Mr. Green re- 

 tired from Glenview, on the eve of pronounced suc- 

 cess, to engage in other business. 



At the close of the Civil War General Wm. T. 

 Withers, who had worn the Gray with honor, de- 

 cided to make his home at Lexington, Ky., and, as 

 he knew how the horse supply had been reduced by 

 four years of strife, he thought it a good business 

 proposition to engage in breeding. He purchased 

 land in the outskirts of Lexington and quickly made 

 it famous as Fairlawn Stock Farm. His principal 

 stallions were Almont, Happy Medium, Aberdeen, 

 C. M. Clay Jr., and Ethan Allen 473. Three of 

 these are renowned speed-producers. The best of 

 Almont's thirty-five trotters were Fanny Witherspoon, 

 2.i6|; Piedmont, 2.174, and Aldine, 2.19^. His 

 two pacers were Westmont, 2.13!, and Puritan, 2.16. 

 Ninety-six of the sons of Almont are producing sires 

 and eighty-three of his daughters are producing dams. 

 December 15, 1882, General Withers wrote to me: 



" I enclose certificates of driver, and the two 

 judges and timers yet living, who I learn from Major 

 Campbell Brown are reputable men, of the trot to 

 beat 2.40 for a stake of $50, over the Nashville 

 track in the summer of 1875, which Almont Jr. 

 (Bostick's) won in 2.29 on first trial. You will see 

 the performance was a regular race. Bostick, who 

 then owned the horse, did not trot to make a record 

 below 2.30, as he expected, and did trot the horse 

 afterwards. It stands on a different footing from 



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