The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity .. . eld regularly in that country for the lastsixty years. TROTTING MARE MAUD S. Color, chestnut; foaled 1874; got by Harold, son of RysdyksHambletonian; dam Miss Russell by Pilot Jr.; 2d dam Sally Russellby Boston. Bred by A. J. Alexander, Spring Station, Ky.; ownedby Robert Bonner, New York city. Engraved after a sketch fromlife by Cross, showing her at ten years old. Her record of a milein 2:08^ has never been equaled by any trotting horse in theworld; and she has been the recognized queen of the trotting turfever since Sept. 18, 188
The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity .. . eld regularly in that country for the lastsixty years. TROTTING MARE MAUD S. Color, chestnut; foaled 1874; got by Harold, son of RysdyksHambletonian; dam Miss Russell by Pilot Jr.; 2d dam Sally Russellby Boston. Bred by A. J. Alexander, Spring Station, Ky.; ownedby Robert Bonner, New York city. Engraved after a sketch fromlife by Cross, showing her at ten years old. Her record of a milein 2:08^ has never been equaled by any trotting horse in theworld; and she has been the recognized queen of the trotting turfever since Sept. 18, 1880, when she made a record of 2:10^. Shecombines in her blood lines the Hambletonian and Pilot trottingfamilies (see pages 92 and 94) upon a Thoroughbred foundation, her2d dam Sally Russell being a Thoroughbred mare. The artist hasrepresented her as being groomed immediately after a race or otherviolent exercise, the colored groom seated under her being in theact of wrapping her legs in the flannel bandages commonly used bytrainers upon such occasions. (100). TROTTING HORSE PHALLAS. Color, bay; foaled 1877; got by Dictator, son of Rysdyks Ham-bletonian; dam by Clark Chief, son of Mambrino Chief; 2d damby Ericsson, son of Mambrino Chief. Bred by H. C. McDowell,Lexington, Ky.; owned by J. I. Case, Racine, Wis. Engraved aftera sketch from life by Cross, showing the horse at seven years trotting record of a mile in 2:13^, July 14, 1884, has neverbeen beaten or equaled by a stallion but once, and then it wasbeaten only by a quarter of a second. Phallas combines in his ped-igree the blood of the Hambletonian and Mambrino Chief families,being especially in-bred to the latter. His sire Dictator is one ofthe most highly-prized sons of Rysdyks Hambletonian, and is fullbrother to Dexter, the most famous trotting horse of his day. (102)
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