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the first breeders in the country to pay $5,000 for a yearling 

 colt, they Laving purchased at that figure the stallion Bell 

 Boy, a son of Electioneer and Beautiful Bells, that at the 

 time of this transaction had already produced Hindaa Rose, 

 three-year-old record 2:19|^, and St. Bell, 2:24|; and two 

 others of the produce of Beautiful Bells have since entered 

 the 2:30 list. After keeping Bell Boy a year and winning 

 a large number of valuable stakes with him, Messrs. Browne 

 & Stockbridge sold him for the long price of $35,000, and 

 at once filled his place with animals of equal merit in tlie 

 matter of breeding. Tbey have on their farm Ambassador, 

 a son of Q-eorge Wilkes, that is not only a trotter himself , but 

 that is siring extreme speed, as is shown by Lady Wilkins, 

 Harry Wilkes, and others of his get that have beaten 2:20. 

 Another stallion of wonderfully good blood lines owned 

 at the Browne farm is Warlock, and there is quite a story 

 to be told in connection with him. Warlock is by Belmont, 

 perhaps the best son of Alexander's Abdallah, and his dam 

 is the famous old mare Water witch, that has produced 

 Viking, 2:19i; Mambrino Gift, 2:20; Scotland, 2:22i ; 

 Wavelet, 2:24| and Waterloo, 2:29^, while three of her 

 ■daughters have already become the dams of four trotters 

 that have beaten 2:30. While still a youngster Warlock 

 was purchased in Kentucky by an English gentleman of 

 horsey tastes who was traveling in this country and shipped 

 across the water. After Viking had shown great speed J. 

 E. Madden, better known as "Happy Jack," a young man 

 than whom there are few better judges of blood lines and 

 other things pertaining to trotters, discovered that War- 

 lock, the full brother of Viking, had been sent across the 

 sea, and the next steamer that left New York had Madden 

 for a passenger, his mission being to find Warlock and bring 

 him back to this country. Arrived on the other side. Mad- 

 den lost no time in sight-seeing, but took train for an in- 

 land county, where Warlock, his tail banged in the most 

 approved style was doing duty in the stud, being advertised 

 as" an American hackney stallion." To hear Madden tell 



