. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. PERSIMMON From Capt. Merry's Book, "The American Thoroughbred" is a pedigree hot enough to cook ham and eggs, but "the frozen truth" is that the horse's name was really not Belmont hut Belle Mount. In 1842 Garrett "Wil- liamson severed his connection with the Commodore and bought a farm in Springdale, Hamilton county, about ten miles from Cincinnati, where he established what he called the "Belle Mount" Stud. There Amer- ican Boy stood at 540 the season (a pretty big fee in those days, by the way). Grey Medoc at $50 and Cadmus
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. PERSIMMON From Capt. Merry's Book, "The American Thoroughbred" is a pedigree hot enough to cook ham and eggs, but "the frozen truth" is that the horse's name was really not Belmont hut Belle Mount. In 1842 Garrett "Wil- liamson severed his connection with the Commodore and bought a farm in Springdale, Hamilton county, about ten miles from Cincinnati, where he established what he called the "Belle Mount" Stud. There Amer- ican Boy stood at 540 the season (a pretty big fee in those days, by the way). Grey Medoc at $50 and Cadmus (son of American Eclipse) at $25. Trustee had been sent to Kentucky and Mercer was dead Fashion was really the only good performer that Trustee ever got in the north. Revenue, Reube, John Black and D'Jalma were Southern productions. One of the Commodore's mares above named was an English mare which he called Prunella, after her distinguished ancestress by Highflyer, which I deem the greatest mare in the English Stud Bood because every great performer of the present day has from twenty-five to thirty crosses of her and from twenty to twenty-five of Penelope, her best daughter. The relationship between Belmont in America and Whale- bone, "Whisker, "Woful, Glencoe, Bay Middleton and Lord Lyon in England, will be seen by the annexed tabulation: BELLE MOUNT, b. h. 1847. CAPT. THOS. B. MERRY (Hidalgo; Stake on Long Island in 1S4S. in 7:33^. The second heat was taken by Bostona and the third and fourth by Tally Ho, both these being by Boston. Free Trade ed in the third heat. AMERICAN EOT, b. h. by Van Mater's Sea Gull. out of a mare by imported Expedition, who got the dam f Medoc (premier sire of America in 1S40-41) and who was also the sire of Sea Gull. Of the dozen mares taken to Ohio by Mr. William- son it Is only necessary for me to enumerate two. ported, b. 1833, by Comus, son rer. Her dam was by Partisan (b. h. 1811), out of Pawn 1808 (own sister to Penelope, dam
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