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the firm 4 imported mares and 2 colts at the side 

 of their dams, from S. W. McMillan, Topeka, Kans. 

 These mares were of the Ellwood stock and ex- 

 cellent individuals, but Mr. McMillan had become 

 discouraged by reason of the long depression in 

 values. He sold the entire bunch to Mr. Robison 

 for $610. Among the band thus purchased for a 

 song was the mare Fine 13085 (26998). She had a 

 filly foal at side when purchased, which Mr. Robi- 

 son recorded as Zaza 24618. Zaza subsequently won 

 first in the aged mare classes at the St. Louis Ex- 

 position in 1904. Her half-sister Fauvette 27223, 

 produced by Fine in 1901, won first in the three- 

 year-old class, and the two were sold immediately 

 after the show to E. B. White of Leesburg, Va., for 

 $1,000 each. Fine produced another foal in 1902, 

 but after that time quit breeding. 



Three other valuable mares were added to the 

 Eobison stud in 1901 by purchases made at the 

 Wyatt Stanley sale. One was Albertine 5119 (7587), 

 a daughter of Confident. Another was the mare 

 Azalia, sired by Brilliant 1271 and out of Albertine. 

 The third mare was Idalia, another daughter of 

 Brilliant 1271. These mares were excellent indi- 

 viduals and had been good producers in the hands 

 of their previous owners, but transplanting them 

 to Kansas apparently interfered with their breeding, 

 for none of them proved to be satisfactory producers 

 after passing into the ownership qf the Whitewater 

 Falls stud. Their failure to breed regularly was 

 a sore disappointment to Mr. Eobison, as they were 



