A GREAT HORSE 



Bedford. He was an own brother to Kosciusko and 

 Saxe Weimar ; Kosciusko's son Woodford got the cel- 

 ebrated Woodbine, dam of Woodford Mambrino, 

 2\2\\, and Wedgewood, 2:19, and Sally Woodford, 

 dam of Brignolia, 2 :29f . Phil, fourth dam of Ralph 

 Wilkes, 2 :o6f , was by Woodford out of a mare by 

 Downing's Bay Messenger, making the same combina- 

 tion at the root of his pedigree and Cresceus's. Patron, 

 2:14^, Prodigal, 2:16, Ponce DeLeon, 2:13, and Pa- 

 tronage, sire of Alix, 2 :o3f , all have double Kosciusko 

 crosses. Saxe Weimar also occurs in some of the great- 

 est trotting pedigrees. He sired Nance, the grandam 

 of the renowned brood mare Dolly, dam of Director, 

 2:17 (sire of Directum, 2:05^, whose record Cresceus 

 has displaced), Thorndale, 2:22:^, and the greatest 

 living sire. Onward, 2 '.2^\. His son. Boner's Saxe 

 W^eimar, got the grandam of Hamlin's Almont, Jr., 

 2 :26, and his noted brother Fieldmont, and Allie 

 Gaines, all remarkable sires. The fourth dam of 

 Bouncer, 2 109, the four-year-old Transylvania, winner 

 of 1895, was also by Boner's Saxe Weimar. 



Viewing Cresceus's pedigree from another light, that 

 of the modern theory that speed comes only from 

 demonstration speed, it is eminently satisfactory. His 

 sire is Robert McGregor, 2:17^, the "monarch of the 

 home-stretch ;" his grandsire. Major Edsall, 2 129 ; his 

 great-grandsire, Alexander's Abdallah, 2 40, who 

 trotted quarters in 36 seconds at Woodburn in stud 

 condition ; his great-great-grandsire, Hambletonian, 



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