A GREAT HORSE 



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

 foals of Contention, Mabel'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^ at that gait in 1890. 

 Aside from her and Mabel the record of Contention's 

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

 Patchen, was Mabel'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 Newton's Allie Wilkes, and she trotted 

 to a record of 2 :26J 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 between that year and her death, in 1899, 

 Mabel also produced several other foals by Robert 

 McGregor. The Trotting Register's version of the 

 pedigree of Mabel stops with her dam, Contention, 

 the daughter of Allie West, but Contention was sold 

 by Barney Treacy as being out of a mare by Victor, 

 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 Mr. Treacy and Frank Darnaby, and 



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