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the mother of the great Maud S., also Nutwood, Lord Russell, 

 and fifteen others. Another daughter, Midnight, out of a Thorough- 

 bred daughter of Lexington, was the dam of Jay-Eye-See, with 

 a pacing record of 2:06^ and a trotting record of 2:10. Water- 

 witch, another daughter of Pilot Jr., produced nineteen foals that 

 lived, six of which made records of 2:30 or better. The family 

 history of Pilot is more or less obscure. He bred both pacers 

 and trotters and rendered valuable service to the American 

 racing-horse interests. 



The Hal family. Years ago down in Kentucky was kept a roan 

 saddle stallion, bred in Canada, known as Kittrel's Tom Hal. It is 

 said that he was much abused in his time and was ridden nearly 

 to death over rocky roads by a drunken wretch in an elm-crotch 

 saddle. For years he stood at a fee of ^S to insure, with no 

 pay if he did not get a good saddle horse. His ancestry is some- 

 what obscure, but it is claimed that he had Morgan blood in his 

 veins. Tom Hal attained fame as the sire of Gibson's Tom Hal, 

 the sire of Hal Pointer (2:041), Little Brown Jug (2:1 il), and 

 Brown Hal (2:1 2^-). The latter became the sire of Star Pointer, 

 the leading sire of this family, a pacer of marvelous speed, char- 

 acter, and endurance that reduced the pacing record to i:59|. 

 Brown Hal is the sire of about ninety in the list, including Hal 

 Dillard (2:04|), Hal Chaffin (2:05^), Elastic Pointer (2:06^), Star 

 Hal (2:06^), and Hal Braden (2:07!). This is the most distin- 

 guished family containing a large percentage of pacing blood. 



The list of famous trotting or pacing brood mares is a very 

 long one, there being several thousand of more or less distinction 

 at this time. Three of these mares well deserve to be placed at 

 the head of this list. 



Beautiful Bells, by The Moor, dam Minnehaha, was foaled in 

 1872. She was bred by L. J. Rose in California, though owned 

 at Palo Alto by Leland Stanford, where she dropped her first 

 foal in 1880 to the service of Electioneer. She produced eleven 

 trotters of great merit, either by Electioneer or his sons, that made 

 records from 2:i2| to 2:29!. On her sire's side she was a Pilot, 

 on the dam's a Mambrino. 



Green Mountain Maid ^■ds, foaled in 1862. She was bred by 

 Samuel Conklin of Middletown, New York. Her sire was Harry 



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