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and Minor sold her to T. J. and M. Wells of Alexandria, 

 Louisiana, for $6,000. Wells Brothers refused an offer of 

 $12,000 for her. In seven races run in 1836-7-8 she won 

 more than $20,000 in prizes. In a match race for $10,000 

 a side, $5,500 bye, mile heats, set for December 15, 1836, 

 at Alexandria, Louisiana, Linnet received forfeit of $5,000 

 from Francis Henderson's Coahoma, by Mercury, dam by 

 Sir Peter Teazle. In 1838, in a 4-mile heat race at New Or- 

 leans for a $2,000 purse she beat, among others, A. L. 

 Bingaman's Fanny Wright (by Bertrand), "Crack of the 

 South," who, in 1837, had won six 4-mile heat races aggre- 

 gating $9,000 in purses. In 1838 at Natchez, Linnet won 

 a $10,000 sweepstake from Angora. Angora's jockey fell 

 off and Linnet got the money, but the respective merits 

 of these two half-sisters from Sumner was not decided. 



In addition to the more than $20,000 winnings referred 

 to above, Linnet received $5,000 forfeit on an inside bet 

 of $10,000 with Col. Osmund Claiborne's Hinda (Susan 

 Yandell) by Sir Richard Tonson, dam by Rockingham, in 

 a 4-mile race won by Fanny Wright at Natchez in March, 



1837. Both Hinda and Linnet were out of sorts and the 

 latter was distanced the first heat. Linnet was the favorite. 



(5) ZELINA, foaled 1833, by Leviathan, her dam (a sister 

 to Betsey Malone) by Stockholder. Afterward owned in 

 turn by Eli Abbott, J. B. Jones, Johnson & Tayloe and 

 Henry H. Tayloe of Alabama. In 1836-7-8 she won 

 three 4-mile heat races, five 3-mile heat races, two 2-mile 

 heat races and four mile-heat races, her winnings amount- 

 ing to $13,900. In this list was a $5,000 sweepstake won 

 over Gen. J. A. Mabry's fine racer, Hugh Lawson White, 

 by Leviathan, dam Julia Franklin by Conqueror, at 

 Tuscaloosa, Alabama. At New Orleans, in December, 



1838, she beat Linnet in a 2-mile heat race for a $10,000 

 purse ; time 4:07 4 : 09. 



