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best brood mares at Oaklawn. She was the dam of 

 Nyanza 869, sold to head the stud of Henry Avery, 

 Wakefield, Kans., in 1881. Ophelia 590, Minerva 

 585, Countess 537, Adelaide 519, and Midocean 583 

 were other mares that proved to be good producers 

 at Oaklawn. By the end of 1880 20 stallions and 28 

 mares had been bred and reared by Mr. Dunham 

 as an earnest of his belief in the production of Ameri- 

 can-bred Percherons. Success 452, Apollo 14, and 

 Vidocq 483 were the sires used, in order named, dur- 

 ing this period. 



Some Celebrities Described. — As a matter of inter- 

 est a detailed description of these horses is here 

 given: 



Success 452, foaled in 1864 and imported in 1868, 

 was 16 hands high; weight 1,700 pounds. He was 

 vigorous, hardy, an easy keeper, compact and sym- 

 metrical, with unusual elegance and attractiveness 

 in general appearance and movement. His get were 

 described as uniformly large-sized, compactly built, 

 clean-limbed, stylish and active, whether from large 

 or small mares. 



Apollo 14, foaled in 1868, imported in 1875, was 

 16% hands high, weighed 2,000 pounds, and was a 

 dark dapple-gray. He was very symmetrical and 

 stylish and excellent in quality. Grand champion 

 at the Centennial in 1876, he sired but 5 purebred 

 colts at Oaklawn before his untimely death early 

 in 1878. Such colts as he did sire were very large, 

 massive, and excellent in character. 



Vidocq 483 (732), foaled in 1869 and imported in 



