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ADY LE VERT was a dark bay brown mare, 

 nearly 16 hands high, with black legs, mane 

 and tail. Her head and neck were remark- 

 ably beautiful, while she was " as pretty as a 

 picture" all over. Her whole form indicated great strength 

 and speed. She was foaled in 1853. Her sire was Old 



Rattler, the famous competitor of Dutchman, and her dam 

 by the thoroughbred horse Post Boy, whose four-mile-race 

 against John Bascomb created such a sensation years ago. 

 Lady Le Vert never trotted in public, but was for years 

 one of the chief attractions at the princely establishment of 

 the late Mr. Benj. M. Whitlock, of Westchester County, N.Y. 



