ii6 MY horse; my love. 



and colts for $250 apiece, and no purchaser was found, 

 he concluded to train the colts himself. Both gave 

 promise of rare speed. When Axtell beat the 

 record at 2:12, as a three-year-old, the offer of 

 $105,000 was made for him by a stock company 

 in Indiana, to which he was sold at the price offered. " 



Then it is to the Arab-Clay blood predominating in 

 Axtell which explains his phenomenal speed? And 

 what became of Allerton? 



" Mr. Williams, having sold Axtell, began the 

 training of Allerton, who proved the better horse, for 

 as a four-year-old he trotted a mile in 2:10. These 

 two colts are matched against each other for a purse 

 of $10,000, but Allerton will not be sold for less than 

 $200,000. They demonstrate the blood cause in the 

 most satisfactory manner. " 



Whence comes the Wilkes family? 



" The dam of George Wilkes was a daughter of 

 Henry Clay, which blood made him the phenomenal 

 sire he was. Rysdyk's Hambletonian is credited to 

 the Wilkes family." 



Was there not a famous Arab called Black Em- 

 peror? 



"Yes, madam. Black Emperor was a Barb, 

 although registered in Bruce's American thorough- 

 bred stud-book, as an Arab. He was presented to 

 the ambassador from France in 1857 by the Sultan of 

 Morocco. Mr. Scott, an American, purchased him 

 in Morocco from the ambassador for $7,000. He 

 was at once shipped to England and thence brought 

 to America by Mr. Scott, who subsequently sold him 

 to Mr. John B. Hall, of Toronto, Canada. Black 



