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daughter, became the most wonderful brood mare 

 in all of English history. Her three great sons, 

 Stockwell, Rataplan, and King Tom, have been 

 among the greatest sires which the English have 

 known. There is hardly a good race-horse in 

 England to-day which does not trace to one of 

 these. 



The infusion of Glencoe blood added to the 

 fame of American racers. His daughters proved 

 — especially when bred to Lexington — wonder- 

 ful brood mares. Lecomte, Starke, Prioress, 

 Brown Dick, Lodi, Fleetwing, Idle wild, and the 

 dazzling trio. Asteroid, Kentucky, and Norfolk, 

 all came from Glencoe mares. 



At twenty-seven years of age the old chestnut 

 died, at Georgetown, Kentucky ; and his owner at 

 the time, A. Keene Richards, Esq., caused him to 

 be buried in his garden, near the spot where his 

 famed daughter Peytona had been laid to rest. 

 Age did not deal kindly with Glencoe. The 

 painting of him just before his death, by Scott, 

 represents a physical wreck — sightless eyes, back 

 deeply swayed, and other plain marks of feeble 

 age. |- -> - ,^ ^■\ '- 



It was in that time of the seventies and early 

 eighties that the sons of imported Bonnie Scot- 



