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| LMONT was foaled in 1864, is a deep bay in 

 color, stands 15 hands 2 inches high, and 

 weighs 1,175 Ibs. in ordinary condition. He 

 was bred at the Woodburn Farm, by the late 

 R. A. Alexander, Esq., got by Alexander's Abdallah, dam 

 by Mambriuo Chief, second dam by Pilot, out of a mare 

 said to be thoroughbred. He has black points, and the 

 color extends to and includes the knees and hocks ; he has 

 the badge of the Mambrino Chief family a gray right 

 hind-leg from the foot to the hock although not yet very 

 plain, but increasing with age. His mane is medium and 

 tail rather light. In harmony of proportions and connected 

 powers he approaches in a great degree the type of his 

 grandsire, Rysdyk's Hambletonian. He has a good, plain 

 head and mild, pleasant countenance, is wide under the 

 jowls, with throttle well detached, giving a clear passage 

 for the windpipe. His neck is straight, clean and muscular, 

 well let into strong, deep shoulders, well thrown back ; with 

 low and broad withers, he is deep through the heart. His 

 back and loin are excellent. He is higher over the rump 

 than at the withers; and though his hips are not wide, he 

 fills a very large breeching. There is a world of strength 

 in the combination of blood which he possesses, uniting, as 

 he does, the Hambletonian family, through Alexander's 

 Abdallah, that begat Goldsuiith Maid, Rosalind and others, 

 with those of Mambrino Chief (sire of Lady Thome and 

 Woodford Mambrino), and Pilot, Jr. (sire of John Mor- 

 gan, Pilot Temple, Dixie, etc.). In temper he is very 

 gentle, and perfectly kind when quiet ; but when in motion 

 he seems only impatient of the restraint of the rein. He 

 wants to go with great vehemence, and seems to delight 

 most in the fastest gait he can display. The gait of Almont 

 and all his family amounts to a type by which they arc as 

 much distinguished as any other feature. He throws his 

 feet well out in front, but does not lift them high, and does 

 not display any excess of knee action; but their reach is 

 even and steady, and so much lacking in the high lifting 

 displays that are sometimes seen, as to call for the observa- 

 tion from many that he trote unequally before and behind ; 

 for, in the matter of wide spreading, stifle, powerfully- 

 acting hocks and grand stride, coupled with a propelling 

 power that is almost terrific, he is a sight worth beholding 

 when he is on the track going at a rate of near 2:20. As 

 a trotter, Almont made his mark before he entered the 

 stud, in one race the only one in which he ever appeared, 

 and in which he distanced his field of competitors in 2:39 J 

 at four years of age. He was trotted over Mr. Alexander's 

 track, in 2:32. which, on other tracks, it is said, would' be 

 equal to 2:27. He was soon after purchased by Col. West 

 for $8000, and has since been in the stud constantly. Mr. 

 R. Lowell drove him a half mile, in 1:12, while in stud 

 service, and with no special preparation for speed. He was 



bought by his present owner, Gen. W. T. Withers, of Lex 

 ington, Ky., in the winter of 1874, for $15,000, and is now 

 doing a large stud service. He made his first season in 

 1869, at five years old, and of that year's produce twelve 

 have been handled, and all trotted, at three years old, in 

 2:50 and better. His get are now numerous and are "every 

 one a trotter," which is claimed by those who are fortunate 

 enough to possess them. At the regular meeting of the 

 Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, at Lex- 

 ington, Ky., in 1873, (the first season of any of Almont's 

 get trotted in public), Alethea won the two-year-old Wood 

 ford stakes; Albrino won the three-year old-stakes, and Allie 

 West the 2:50 race for three-year-olds. Albrino, after making 

 a full season in 1875, trotted a full mile in 2:30. 



At the meeting in 1874, Consul, by Almont, won the two- 

 year-old colt stakes, beating seven competitors; Alethea the 

 Gold stakes for three-year-olds, Easter Maid, by Almont, 

 winning the first heat, and Allie West won the four-year- 

 old stakes. 



In 1875, Consul won the three-year-old stakes at Har- 

 rodsburg, making a record of 2:39, over a slow track ; and 

 Piedmont won the Charter Oak stakes, for four-year-olds, 

 at Hartford, Conn., in three straight heats. Time, 2:32i 

 2:34i 2:30*. 



Trouble, another son of Almont, owned in Tennessee, 

 with but little training, won at Terre Haute, Ind., and 

 other points in the Northwest, making a good record of 

 2:37}. At Vermont (four years old) won first money in the 

 $500 Free for All Purse offered by the Fair Association, 

 at Lexington, Ky., in September, 1875, and Alamo, another 

 son of Almont, took second money. Alamo, now the property 

 of C. B. Jones, Esq., of Des Moines, Iowa, a fouv-year-old 

 Almont, in October, 1875, won the premium at the St. Louis, 

 Mo., Fair, for the fastest trotting horse, mare or gelding, 

 irrespective of age, over a field of fourteen starters. Alethea 

 reduced her record (four years old) to 2:31, at Cynthiana, 

 and Allie West, five years old, made a record of 2:25. 



In addition to the actual winners above named, Almont 

 has sired a number of others that have made records, and 

 some of his fastest produce have not yet trotted in public. 



Additional lustre has been added to the fame of Almont 

 by the victory of his daughter, Aldine, at the Breeders' 

 Centennial Meeting, on Sept. 26th. This was in the contest 

 for the Revolution Race for three-year-olds, for a purse of 

 $2500. She defeated a field of six choice bred ones with 

 ease, in 2:40 2:40 1, proving in the race that she possesses 

 in a very unusual degree qualities of both speed and bottom. 



The Almonts represent an early family, and to those who 

 have an eye to breeding of colts for early development, there 

 is nothing we can with more confidence recommend as an 

 experimental element for their production than the blood of 

 Almont. The Field, Chicago. 



