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inside of three minutes. He gives pedigree as above. He says in 

 the catalogue : " Denning Allen is a horse of great promise, can 

 trot in 2 : 45 , without any special training ; as a stallion he also has great 

 promise, as will be seen from his colts to be exhibited on the day of sale". 



A correspondent of the "Middlebury Register" writes of him 

 as follows : "Denning Allen shows the highest equine beauty, com- 

 bined harmoniously with the noblest exhibition of strength and sub- 

 stance. He has been kept in a region of few trotting-bred animals, 

 and has done little service in the stud, being used largely as a driv- 

 ing horse. He is said to have gotten about one hundred colts in the 

 neighborhood of Little Rock ; some of them showing much speed. 

 He got the famous black gelding, Lord Clinton, from a little brown 

 old mare whose breeding is not known. Lord Clinton, at the end of 

 last season, had a list of twenty trotting victories to his credit, sixty 

 heats in 2 130 and better, and a race record of 2 : ioj^ in the second 

 heat of a race which he won ; a race record that at the time it was 

 made had never been beaten by a stallion or gelding. To show the 

 quality that he displayed in his races we will copy the summaries of 

 two, adding the records, as they stand, of the defeated horses : 



" INDEPENDENCE, IOWA, September i, 1892. 

 PURSE, $1,000; 2 :iy CLASS. 



Lord Clinton (2 :io^), bl. g., by Denning Allen 3 i i i 



Lobasco (2 :io^), b. h., by Egmont 1322 



Little Albert (2 :io^), ch. g., by Albert W 2233 



Poem (2 : 14) b h, by General Washington 5454 



Canary Bird (2 119^) ro m, by Jay Bird 4 5 4 dr 



Time, 2 :ii%, 2 :io^, 2 :n, 2 113^. 



"INDIANAPOLIS, September 23, 1892. 

 PURSE, $1,000 ; 2:15 CLASS. 

 Lord Clinton (2:10^) big, by Denning Allen. ... 2142141 



Azote (2 : 14^) b g, by Whips 4413212 



Magnolia ( 2 : 1 2 ^ ) b m, by Haw Patch i 2 2 4 4 2 4 



Cheyenne (2 : 14 1/() b h, by Nutbourne 3 3 3 J 3 3 3 



Grattan (2:17^) br h, by Wilkes Boy dis. 



Time, 2 115, 2 :i5>, 2 114^, o :oo, 2 :i3>^, 2 115^, 2 119^ ". 



Denning Allen was awarded ist premium for Morgan stallions 

 five years old or over, and sweepstakes for Morgan stallions of any 

 age, at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893. 



He also received the very high compliment of being selected by 

 Max Landsberg, the noted sculptor, sent out by the German govern- 

 ment to take models of such American horses at the World's Fair, as 

 he thought desirable for use in the agricultural schools of Germany. 

 Herr Landsberg selected Denning Allen, and Columbian Jessie by 



