Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-03-09

Buffalo Girl, 2:l21; Rosa Clay, dam Of
David B., :121. and CapOul, 2:2S; Susie,
dam of Allan Lowe, 2:l64, and DeBarry,
2l94; May Queen, 1920, dam of May
King, 1920, and Clingstone's dam
Gretchen, are all l51 hands. Betsy, by
Draco, dam of two 20 PAGERS, and Son.
net, dam of Poem, 2:l4. etc., are both 10
hands. Old Kate, by Bellaire, was IA /;
Minnie Patchen, dam of Island Wilkes,
2:l3l. is l44, and Carrie Russell, dam
of Jack, is IA hands. while the st.
Claire mares, from which Senator Stan
ford bred his first Juvenile record-break-
ers, were all small, Bonita's dam, May
Fly, being IA, and Mayfower, 1904,
dam of Manzanita. ZIG, aud Wlldflower,
2:2l, is III hands. Lizzie. by Wildidle,
out of mare by Fred Low, is Ia hands,
and dam of All There. 2:lS4. and others.
Turning to the dams of great sires, the
Charles Kent mare was l53 hands
about the average size of Hambletonian's
daughters. Katy Darling, of disputed
breeding but indisputable worth. was
full 15a, and the daughters of Alexan-
der's Abdallah have been good-sizcd
mares. Mambrino Chiefs dam was
about l5A hands, but bis family incline
to greater size. Belle, the dam of Bel
mont, was l6 hands, and Queen Dido,
dam of Red Wilkes, the same, while the
daughters of his son Mambrino Patchen,
whose dam, the Rhodes mare, was l53,
are generally large. Patchen Maid,
dam of Astral, 2:1S, was l6 hands, as
was Emma Arterburn, dam of st.
Arnaud, 2:l9t, and great-grandam Of
Harrietta, 2 :093. Pattie Patchen, who
produced Bermuda, = :20i, and X ty c.,
dam of Elko, 2:l7, and two others, are
15f hands. Lady Benton, dam of four
sires, was l6 hands; Belle of Wabash,
dam of The Moor, was l5a, and Dolly
Spanker was 10 D hands high. General
Knox's dam and the dam of Kentucky
Prince were l51 hands, which was the
height of Shanghai Mary, grandam of
Electoneer. Queen, the dam of Blue
Bull, was 154 hands, and his great pro-
ducing daughter Rushville Maid, dam Of
Vitello, 2:I14. and others, is l53 hands.
The George NJ. Patchen mare Lucy,
2:lS4, was l54 hands, and another
Patchen mare, almost her equal in speed,
but handicapped by broken hip, was
the bay mare Bridget, l5a hands, dam of
Cuyler Clay, and the producing mares
Venus and Juno, by Conklins Star
Venus was as large as her dam, and her
daughter Four Lines, 154 hands, is dam
of Merry Thought, 2:224, the young
sire Woodline, 10, and Nemesis, 22S,
the dam of Nemoline (3), 2:l63.
Beatrice, dam of Patron, 2:l44, Prod-
gal, 2:16, and Patronage, the sire of
Alix, was l53 hands; Cigarette and
Mamie c., each with three In the list,
are l5a hands Lady Ellen, America by
Hambletonian, and Alice Drake, all
members of the great brood mare list,
are l54 hands, while Alice brakes
daughter. Bonnie Belle, whose speed
representatives equal her dams in num-
Der, is l54 hands. Emily c., dam of
Bayonne Prince, , :2lt, and Bonnie Las
sic, dam of Titania, 2:27, and Rochester
were l54 hands, as is Bess, by Volun-
teer, dam of Camille, 2204. The Vol
unteer mare Lonely, dam of two of st.
Bells performers, is but 10 hands, which
is also the height of Lady Morgan, by
Hambletonian, dam of three performers
and sire of speed.
If an opinion could safely be formed
from this indiscriminate collection of
data it would appear that a majority of
the consistent producers of speed have
been mares of l54 hands, but, as that
represents the average height of a trot-
tlng-bred animal, it might be inferred
that the greater proportion of mares
bred have been of that size, and the
conclusion reached that-to paraphrase
an old saying-'a good mare can't be a
bad size"