CHAPTER XXXV 



STOUT, WILLIAMS, CATON 



AT the Glenview dispersal sale the second highest 

 price, $22,000, was paid for Nutwood, son of Bel- 

 mont and Miss Russell. He was a chestnut of strik- 

 ing appearance, born in 1870, and had a trotting 

 record of 2.i8f. He had shown his ability to sire 

 speed, and his purchase by H. L. and F. D. Stout of 

 Dubuque, Iowa, was exceedingly fortunate. He was 

 able to command a large stud fee, and the annual 

 income from him was nearly equal to the purchase 

 price. Just previous to his death he outranked all 

 living stallions. He is the head of a great family 

 and we count his descendants that have taken rec- 

 ords by the thousand. The chief fault found with 

 him was a tendency to beget pacers, as well as 

 trotters. The Stouts surrounded Nutwood with 

 brood mares of positive merit, and in its heyday the 

 eyes of the world were fixed upon the breeding farm 

 at Dubuque. It passed, as all earthly things pass, 

 and only the memory of it survives. 



Mambrino Boy was a black horse foaled in 1868 

 by Mambrino Patchen, dam Roving Nelly by 

 Strader's Cassius M. Clay Jr. ; second dam by thor- 

 oughbred Berthune, and third dam by Rattler, son 

 of Sir Archy, and in 1876 he trotted to a record of 



