. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Licensed Pure Bred, Cert. No. 1172. NO. 60907 A. T. R. RULE 1. DERBERTHA BELLS, foaled 1911, stands , weighs 1200 pounds, and is of magnificent conforma- tion, style, trotting action and color; being a solid dark bay or brown with splendid mane and tail, mas- sive well-formed limbs and feet, beautiful neck and head, fine, well set ear and eye as kindly as a fawn's and as courageous as a lion's. His breeding can only be hinted at here as he traces 20 times to Hamble- toman 10—5 through Electioneer, 5 through George Wilkes, 4 through Strathmore and 4 through
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Licensed Pure Bred, Cert. No. 1172. NO. 60907 A. T. R. RULE 1. DERBERTHA BELLS, foaled 1911, stands , weighs 1200 pounds, and is of magnificent conforma- tion, style, trotting action and color; being a solid dark bay or brown with splendid mane and tail, mas- sive well-formed limbs and feet, beautiful neck and head, fine, well set ear and eye as kindly as a fawn's and as courageous as a lion's. His breeding can only be hinted at here as he traces 20 times to Hamble- toman 10—5 through Electioneer, 5 through George Wilkes, 4 through Strathmore and 4 through Abdallah 15 (the big tour of the sons of Hambletonian), and twice through his daughters. This breeding is perfectly balanced by 18 crosses to Mamb. Chief 11—5 of these through his greatest son Mamb. Patchen 58 (leading progenitor of the dams of trotting sires), backed up by 2 crosses to Pilot Jr. 12, 4 to Black Hawk 5, 4 to Imp. Trustee and crosses to such other famous broodmare sires as American Star, The Monr, A. W. Richmond, Williamson's Belmont etc «, \ cI)arlenfe ??y S1 a,n toc name a stam°n with a broodmare inheritance approaching that of Derbertha Bells—5 crosses to Green Mountain Maid (dam of 9 and Election- ? Ii;,; i„^ma0Mat'?,r/iiam °/,8 -an? 7 sires' ^chiding Alcyone and Alcantara), and L™,1 t? Miss Russell (dam of 7, including Maud S. 2:08% and 6 sires, including Nut- Sr'r??/ m,0,' and 5 sires, including Director, Onward and Thorndale), Beau- rr£v„ „fs L^mB°J-1i\in0rrSdmB 4 world's champions and 10 sires) and Minnehaha (dam of 8 and 6 sires). These are pre-eminently the greatest mares of history in point of number of descendants in the standard list, besides 2 crosses to Bertha the only mare with 2 in 2:04%, 5 in 2:10 and 13 in the list. Counting duplicated this pedi- gree contains the blood of 20 mares with an average of 9 performers each, and of the conteinsS8aPPeanngr '" PediSree of two or more 2:10 trotters in 1910 this pedigree His dispo
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