CHAPTEK XXVII. 



THE FIVE GREAT TROTTING BROOD MARES OP THE WORLD. 

 Green Mountain Maid — Dam of nine in 2.30 list — Two in 2.20 — Also one 

 with a record of 2.20f — Dam of the great Electioneer with 155 trotters 

 in the list — Her pedigree — Beautiful Bells' pedigree — Dam of seven 

 in 2.30 list — Dam of sixteen foals — Miss Russell, pedigree — Dam of 

 nineteen foals — Dam of Maud S., 2 08i, etc. — Canadian blood mixed 

 with thoroughbred in pedigree — Dolly, pedigree — Dam of three 

 great sires — Dam of Czarina — Object lesson for breeders — Alma 

 Mater— Pedigree — Dam of eight 2.30 trotters — Dam of Alcantara — 

 A positive breeder. 



THE five greatest trotting brood mares of the world are as 

 follows : 



Green Mountain Maid, holding precedence over all others 

 by virtue of being the dam 1 of nine in the 2.30 list, two of 

 which have trotted in 2.20, while another has a record of 2.20|. 

 She has, with justice, been denominated as " the great mother 

 of trotters." 



Her life was a long one and was mostly spent in the pad- 

 docks of Stony Ford ; and in the long list of her foals there are 

 but two who were not sired by Messenger Duroc. These were 

 Inr first two, and were the bay mare Storm, 2.16f, by Middle- 

 town, foaled in 1867 ; and the bay horse Electioneer, foaled in 

 1868, sired by Bysdyk's Hambletonian. The latter never ap- 

 peared in public on the turf, and is not reckoned as one of the 

 nine of his dam's produce in the 2.30 list ; but in fame his name 

 outweighs all of theirs both individually and collectively. 



Green Mountain Maid was sired by Harry Clay, son of Cas- 

 sius M. Clay, Jr., (20-) a lineal descendant of Imported Bel- 

 founder, and her dam was a most excellent sorrel mare with 

 four white legs and stripe in her face, who was bred by Gold- 

 smith Coffin of Bed Lion, Ohio, and sired by Iron's Cadmus by 



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