. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Derbertha Bells 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 Strathmor
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Derbertha Bells 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 four of the sons of Hambletonian), and twice through his daughters. This breeding is perfectly balanced by IS crosses to Mamb. Chief 11—5 of the.^e 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. Tnistee and crosses to such other famous broodmare sires as American Star, The Moi->r, A. W. Richmond, Williamson's Belmont, etc. I challenge any man to name a stallion with a broodmare inheritance approaching that of Derbertha Bells,—5 crosses to Green Mountain Maid (dam of 9 and Election- eer), 3 to Alma Mater (dam of S and 7 sires, including Alcyone and Alcantara), and 1 each to Miss Russell (dam of 7, including Maud S. 2:0S?i and 6 sires, including Nut- wood), Dolly (dam of 4 and 5 sires, including Director, Onward and Thorndale), Beau- tiful Bells (dam of 11, including 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 duplicates this pedi- gree contains the blood of 20 mares with an average of 9 performers each, and of the 14 mares appearing in the pedigree of two or more 2:10 trotters in 1910 th
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