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iiime purchased the entire crop of yearlings at Woodburn. 

 Mr. W. R. Allen, whose breeding establishment at Pitts- 

 'field, Mass. , has started out in a manner which shows him 

 to be not only unstinted in the expenditure of money but 

 also the possessor of a keen judgment and extensive knowl- 

 edge in the matter of trotting blood, made a large draft from 

 Woodburn. Otlier instances might be noted, but this wUl 

 suffice to show the influence which one establishment, prop- 

 -erly conducted, can have on the breeding interest of the 

 country, and how that influence will continue for genera- 

 tions. With Harold, the sire of Maud S., Belmont, the sire 

 of Wedgewood, Lord Russel the brother of Maud S. , King- 

 Wilkes, sire of Oliver K., and other horses of less promi- 

 nence, but perhaps not less merit, on its roll of stallions, it 

 can not be but that Woodburn will always keep to the front. 

 Its policy, unde]' the management of Mr. Brodhead, has al- 

 ways been an intelligent and progressive one, and this was 

 never better shown than last season when Mr. Brodhead 

 -sent the dam of Maud S., two of her daughters, the dam of 

 Pancoast, and one or two other famous mares clear across 

 the continent to be bred to Electioneer. He had noted the 

 successes of the Californian stallion, and, as he has since 

 said in print, it was the Electioneer cross that he wanted — 

 not any particular one of the strains that go to make up 

 the pedigree of Senator Stanford' s premier stallion. It is 

 this policy that pervades all the branches at Woodburn. 

 There is no narrow-minded plan of breeding, but the central 

 idea of the management is always to secure, retain and 

 •develop the most promising strains of performing trotting 

 blood, no matter from what source they may come, and it 

 was this policy that dictated the recent purchase of King 

 Wilkes. Men from all parts of the country go to Wood- 

 burn every year and buy horses with as much confidence as 

 they would go to Tiffany' s in New York to buy jewelry. 

 They know that the reputation of the place wiU. not allow 

 of misrepresentation being made, and that the goods are 

 standard. And what wonder that a mare bred at a place 



