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sire of such outstanding excellence. Despite this, 

 time has demonstrated that no sire ever begot a 

 more uniform and a more excellent lot of colts than 

 Calypso, when the character of the mares used is 

 taken into consideration. 



It must not be inferred from this that there were 

 no good mares in the Lakewood Farm stud. There 

 was a large number of mares of the best type and 

 breeding, whose progeny by Calypso carried the 

 colors of the Lakewood stud to the front in the 

 strongest of competition at the leading shows. 



Olbert 42815 (53109), first-prize aged stallion and 

 reserve champion at the 1905 International, was 

 purchased and used in the Lakewood stud during 

 the seasons of 1906 and 1907. He was an upstanding 

 gray, over 17 hands high and weighing 2,100 pounds 

 in fair condition. He was an upheaded, stylish stal- 

 lion, rather more rangy in pattern than most of 

 the horses of 1905 and 1906. He was a horse of 

 surpassing quality, with flintlike bone, tendons well 

 set back and joints clearly defined. Olbert was pur- 

 chased for the particular purpose of being mated 

 to the daughters of Calypso, with a view to in- 

 creasing the scale and draftiness of the Lakewood 

 Farm Percherons. He begot size, but his colts were 

 so rough and rangy in appearance as yearlings and 

 two-year-olds that he was disposed of before his 

 real value as a sire became apparent. His get did 

 not round into sale form until 3 and 4 years of 

 age, but they were horses of tremendous scale and 

 massiveness, with more than usual quality. His 



