THE STANDARDBRED HORSE I25 



Greew Mountain Maid. — This mare was bred by Samuel 

 Conkliii of Middletown, New York, and was sired by 

 Harry Clay, and out of Shanghai Mary, and born in 1862. 

 She stood 15 hands high and was brown in color, with 

 star and white hind ankles. She spent the most of her 

 life in the possession of Charles Backman at Stony Ford 

 Farm, dying in 1888, at the age of 26 years. Green 

 Mountain Maid produced 16 foals, 14 of which were sired 

 by Messenger Duroc. Her greatest son was Electioneer, 

 her second foal, and sired by Hambletonian 10. Of the 

 16 colts, nine were standard trotters. In her memory, 

 the year following her death Backman erected a granite 

 monument with the inscription "^On the spot dedicated 

 to her worth and honored by her dust." 



Miss Russell. — A gray mare bred by R. A. Alexander, 

 Woodburn, Kentucky, and was sired by-Pilot Jr., and out 

 of Sally Russell by Boston. Miss Russell was the dam 

 of 18 foals, -seven of them standard performers, five 

 trotters and two pacers. Her first and greatest son was 

 lutwood, by Belmont, and her most famous daughter 

 /as Maud S., by Harold, the champion trotter of her day. 



The famous present-day stallions. — As with the dams, 

 the list of famous trotting and pacing sires is a very long 

 one, and it is not possible to consider each. There are, 

 nowever, three modern sires that seem worthy of special 

 mention, namely, Peter the Great, Bingen and McKinney. 



Peter the Great. — This horse was bred by D. D. Streeter, 

 Kalamazoo, Michigan, and was sired by Pilot Medium, 

 and out of Santos, dam of standard performers. He was 

 born in 1895. Peter the Great stands 16 hands high and 

 weighs i;i50 pounds. He has 99 standard performers, 

 94 trotters and five pacers. While he is now only 16 

 years of age, he has 13 performers in the. 2. id list. He is 

 the only stallion to win and sire a winner of the Kentucky 

 futurity. 



Bingen.* — This horse was bred by A. Smith McCann, but 



•Bingen died April 13, 1913. 



