The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity .. . TROTTING HORSE DON COSSACK. Color, bay; foaled 1876; got by August Belmont, son of RysoVyksHambletonian; dam Laytham Lass by Alexanders Abdallah, son ofRysdyks Hambletonian; 2d dam by Mambrino Chief. Bred by McFerran & Son, Louisville, Ky.; owned by Arthur J. Caton,Caton Stock Farm, Joliet, 111. Don Cossack made a trotting recordof 2:28 at five years old, and since then has been kept exclusivelyfor service in the breeding stud at Caton Stock Farm, where hismerits as a sire have become so conspicuous that he has scarcelyever bee
The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity .. . TROTTING HORSE DON COSSACK. Color, bay; foaled 1876; got by August Belmont, son of RysoVyksHambletonian; dam Laytham Lass by Alexanders Abdallah, son ofRysdyks Hambletonian; 2d dam by Mambrino Chief. Bred by McFerran & Son, Louisville, Ky.; owned by Arthur J. Caton,Caton Stock Farm, Joliet, 111. Don Cossack made a trotting recordof 2:28 at five years old, and since then has been kept exclusivelyfor service in the breeding stud at Caton Stock Farm, where hismerits as a sire have become so conspicuous that he has scarcelyever been defeated in the show ring when exhibited with his after a painting by Dewey, showing the horse at fouryears old. (10S). TROTTING HORSE FAIRY GIFT. Color, brown; foaled 1876; got by Hero of Thorndale, son ofThorndale; dam Fairy Belle by Belmont, son of Alexanders Abdal-lah; 2d dam Waterwitch by Pilot Jr. Bred by F. P. Kinkeacl,Woodford Co., Ky.; owned by A. G. Danforth, Washington, after a sketch from life by Corwine, showing the horseat eight years old. This horse is strongly in-bred to RysdyksHambletonian through several lines, Thorndale also being by Alex-anders Abdallah (sire of Goldsmith Maid), who was a son ofRysdyks Hambletonian, and Thorndales dam was also by thisfamous old sire. He also has the Mambrino Chief cross throughBelmont, and the Pilot cross through his second dam, Waterwitch,the famous old mother of trotters. Fairy Gift is used as the chiefbreeding stallion in the trotting department of Melbourne StockFarm. (i 10)
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