The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-31

Craigs Alfred, son OF imported Med
ley.
II was likewise undisputed that SAL
iy Russell. the dam of Miss Russell.
was by Boston out Of Mary Russell.
by Thornton's Rather. and was virtu-
ally thoroughbred. In 1879. when Maud
8. doomed up as the greatest young trot-
ter ever seen. John II. Wallace. the
| champion Of plebeian blood In the trot-
ter m the hater OF the thoroughbred.
attacked the pedigree of Pilot. jr.'s
dam. maintaining that the sire of Nan
cy Pope was a c-oarse-grained farm
horse, Ind that Nancy Taylor was a
saddle mare of unknown blood. Ken
tuckfans resented the attack of Wal
lace. and under the leadership Of Lucas
Brodhead, the manager of WOODBURY.
farm. they retaliated by starting a
stud book OF their own rs a rival OF
Wallace's Trotting Register. Then Wal
lace set out to smash the other side
OF Miss Russells pedigree by maintain
ing that Mr.. Alexander had been VIC
timized by a sharper in buying Sally
Russell, and that she was not by the
great race horse Boston. out OF Maria
Russell. Wallace carried this point in
the matter OF Nancy Pope's pedigree.
the board of censors OF the so-called
National Association of Trotting Horse
Breeders having decided that Funk's
law oACo III 1850 ~ tha -
Pope was not foaled until 1882. so that
he could not have been her sire accord
ing to their finding. But the pedigree
of Sally Russell was never changed In
the trotting register. When the Ken
tuckians, IL years later. busted Wallace
Inc got control of the trotting register
IL was expected by Wallace n his
riends that one Of their first acts would
be to reverse the ruling of the board
OF censors and reinstate the old pedi-
gree OF Nancy Pope. but this has new
err been dor
When Miss Russell was 3 years old
she trotted a trial over the WOODBURY.
farm track in 2:4i. which was sensa-
tional speed for a 3-year-old in 1865
The late J. w. Knox tried to buy her
for racing purposes after this trial, but
the manager Of woodburn farm refus-
ed to sell. The Pittsburg horseman
then bargained that she should be bred
to Belmont, IN that her first foal
should belong to him. This colt. foal-
ed in 1870. was Nutwood. Knox took
him to California in 1877. and there
pea the best trotters on the coast. in
Guiding st. Julien, AIN. the then king
of the turf. In 1879 Nutwood gained
a record Of 2:1S%, which. mex TO Snug
gler's 2:15A and Santa Claus 2:1s. was
the fastest time on record for trotting
stations. Two years later Knox sold
Nutwood to j. c. McFerran Of the
Glenview stud. Louisville, Ky, for $12.-
500. The half brother of Maud s. was
kept in the stud at Glenview until the
death of McFerran in 1886. when Nut
wood was sold at auction for So. 900
to II. l.. and F. d.. Stout of Dubuque.
Ia. He was known as the greatest of
living sires before he died there in 1896.
over 100 OF his get having gained rec
ords below 2:30. Lady Norwood, the
second foal of Miss Russell, died young,
the property of Robert Bonner She
was fast as a 3-year-old. but was yer
trained, and was put to breeding with
out gaining a record. Miss Russelrs
third foal, another filly by Belmont.
was Cora Belmont, who gained a rec
ord of 2:2fh. Bred TO Harold, the sire
of Maud s.. she produced Cora s.,
2:25A. Both Cora Belmont n Cora S.
were owned by William Simpson Of
this city.
Maud s.. was the fourth foal Of Miss
Russell. She was by Harold and was
born in 1874. At the WOODBURY. farm
sale of 1875 she was sold to Henry Blu
CHER of Cincinnati for something like
5000. Capt. II. n. Stone bought the
mare a year or two later and placed
her in the hands of w. w. Bair, who
developed her speed and drove her in
nearly all of her important races n
exhibitions. William II. Vanderbilt
paid s2l, 900 for Maud s.. and sold her
to Robert Bonner for $40. 900. She was
the first trot:er to beat 2:10. and she
held the worlds record almost contin-
uously from 1880 to 1891. The mare is
stlll living at Mr.. Bonner's W~estches-
ter county farm. She has never pro-
duced a foaL.
Another foal of Harold died when
a few days old. in 1875. Miss Russell's
WA2.e w.va - 80 - -
Belmont, foaled in 1877. He was sold
as a weanling to the Hon. i. ". Baker.
Comstocks, N. Y, who that year
bought nearly the entire crop Of Wood
burn weanlings. Robert Bonner bought
the horse a few years afterward and
kept him in the stud at his farm near
Tarrytown until the stallion died. In
1889. He trotted in private in 2:26h.
and got the great trotting stallion
Cheyenne. 2:o9h. as well as several
other fast ones. In 1877 Miss Russell
was bred to Woodford Manbrino. 2:21h.
and produced in the following year the
chestnut colt Mapbrino Russell. He
was purchased as a weanling by Paul
Dana. who old him at 3 years of age
In 1881, to Col. II. c.. Stoner for IS, 200.
Mambrino Russell was kept in the
stud in Kentucky, and there got nine
trotters and six PAGERS that gained
records of 2:30 or better. Nearly half
of his get were PAGERS. Nutula, chest
nut filly by Belmont. foaled in 1879.
was reserved for breeding at
WOODBURY.. She is the dam of Maud
len, 2:25%. Russella, a IRA sister to
Maud s.. that came in 1880. was sold
the same year to Robert Steel of Phil
adelphia, who purchased that year the
entire crop of WOODBURY. weanlings.
Russella is now owned by Robert Bon
ner. SHE has been used as a brood mare,
and has produced four colts. Lord
Russell, a brother of Maud S., foaled
in 1881, was reserved and placed at the
head of the WOODBURY. stud. He got
Kremlin. who lowered the record for
trottlng stations to 2:07% in 1892. m
20 other trotters in the 2:30 list. Lady
Russell, the next foal of Miss Russell.
was a gray FLY by Harold. born in
1882. IN was reserved for breeding
purposes and produced Reelection.
2:27h: Electrix, 2:2S1a: Ladykin, 2:30.