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of the time the number of producing mares was less 

 than 10. The number of colts raised and recorded 

 annually varied from 1 to 7. 



A good foundation for the stud had been laid 

 by Thomas Jones. Rose 604 and 3 of her daughters, 

 all by Normandy 351, had been bred to Ajax 5, and 

 from this foundation some excellent females were 

 produced. Between the time when Ajax dropped out 

 and the purchase of Greluchet 11333 (21165) in 1889 

 the firm had no stallion of consequence; the best 

 mares were bred to horses owned by other parties. 

 Napoleon 328, Valor 951, Mignon 6090 (2894), Lion 

 ,273, and L'Ami 6239 (1649) were among the sires 

 so used. 



Lion was one of the best of these stallions. He 

 was owned by W. H. Case & Co. at Delaware. This 

 horse was a gray, about 16.2 hands high and weighed 

 between 1,800 and 1,900 pounds in breeding condi- 

 tion. He was a well-balanced horse of drafty pat- 

 tern, good in the underpinning and with proper 

 action. His best son, Martell 2491, bred by the 

 Joneses, was out of Norma 1779, a daughter of Ajax. 

 Martell was sold as a yearling in 1883 for $500. His 

 purchaser, J. P. Thompson, kept and used him till 

 1888, when he won the silver cup at the Ohio State 

 Fair for the best Percheron stallion bred in Ohio. 

 He was sold immediately afterward to a man near 

 Cleveland for $2,000, but sired no purebred colts 

 after leaving Thompson's ownership. 



Mignon, commonly known as "Mingo Chief," was 

 another good sire used in Delaware county and pat- 



