A GREAT HORSE 



also sold at the same time, as well as another of the 

 foals of Contention, INIabel's dam. This was Flight, a 

 bay mare by Osgood's Patchen, foaled in 1885, between 

 which date and that of the sale Contention must have 

 been sold or died, probably the latter. Flight was a 

 pacer and took a record of 2 134 J at that gait in 1890. 

 Aside from her and Alabel the record of Contention's 

 foals is wanting. Nightingale (1884) by Osgood's 

 Patchen, was ^label's first foal ; she was a great race 

 mare, winner of both the M. & M. and Charter Oak 

 $10,000 stakes in 1892, besides many other races. Her 

 best record was 2:10^ in 1893, but she beat 2:10 more 

 than once. Darkness, also by Osgood's Patchen, was 

 foaled in 1887. In 1888 came Sadie Hasson 

 (Corinne), by Xewton's Allie \\'ilkes, and she trotted 

 to a record of 2 126^ in 1894. 



Miss Mary, by Bay View, was foaled in 1891, and 

 took a record of 2 124^, pacing, in 1897. Cresceus came 

 in 1894, and betv.een that year and her death, in 1899, 

 Mabel also produced several other foals by Robert 

 AIcGregor. The Trotting Register's version of .the 

 pedigree of ]\Iabel stops with her dam, Contention, 

 the daughter of Allie West, but Contention was sold 

 by Barney Treacy as being out of a mare by A^ictor, 

 son of Downing's Bay Messenger, grandam by Cru- 

 sader, thoroughbred son of Sir Archy. This extension 

 is in all likelihood correct. Contention was bred in 

 partnership by ]\[r. Treacy and Frank Darnaby, and 



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