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thorn. The produce was a chestnut colt called Verifier, who won eleven straight races 

 and never was beaten until he broke down while leading that also great colt Revenue. 

 Belshazzar got a great many good horses and two of his get, Babylon and Ninus, were 

 sent over to England where each won a race or two. Belshazzar's male line became 

 extinct, partly through the Civil War which almost paralyzed breeding in the South ; 

 and partly through the total 'indifference of the Kentucky breeders of that period, who 

 could see no merit in anything but Lexington and Yorkshire. No horses "got the 

 cold shoulder" worse than did Bonnie Scotland and Leamington on their first visits Lo 

 the Blue Grass region. 



