The horse of America in his derivation, history and development ... by Wallace John Hankins 1822-1903

Author:Wallace, John Hankins, 1822-1903
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horses, Horses
Publisher: New York : J. H. Wallace
Published: 1897-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

sons are pacers, and frequently pacers of extreme speed, including such as Joe Patchen, 2:03, and Eubenstein, 2:05, while John E.Gentry, 2:00^, Online, 2:04, and Frank Agan, 2:03, are by grandsons of Wilkes. Like his sire, George Wilkes got many sons greater than himself—and after all that is the true test of greatness in a progenitor.

Electioneer has for some years led, far and away, all sires of trotters in the numbers of performers to his credit in both the 2:20 list and 2:30 list, and is generally conceded to have had no equal as a producer of early speed—that is, of colts and fillies that trotted fast at tender ages. In many resj)ects this was the most remarkable horse of any age, for besides being phenomenally prolific in transmitting speed at the trot, and in getting early trotters, he possessed in a higher degree than any sire that has yet lived the ability to control running blood in the dam, and to impress his OAvn instinct and action upon Jiis progeny out of any and all kinds of mares. In speaking on his pet hobby of producing trotters from thoroughbred running mares, Governor Stanford once said to me: "None of my stallions but Electioneer can do it;" and of all the hundreds of stallions that have been mated with thoroughbred mares in the hope of getting a trotter of extreme, speed. Electioneer alone was able to do it. Palo Alto, 2:08:^, is so far faster than any other trotting horse out of a thoroughbred dam—the one solitary instance on record of a half-bred trotter of extreme speed—that he is significant in one way, and one only, and that is as an evidence of the phenomenal prepotency of the blood of his sire in controlling instinct and action.

Electioneer was a dark bay horse, foaled May 2, 1868, bred by Charles Backman, at his Stonyford Stud, Orange County, New York. He was got by Hambletonian, out of Green Mountain Maid, by Harry Clay, 2:29, grandam the fast trotting mare Shanghai Mary, pedigree not established, but in all probability a daughter of Iron's Cadmus, the sire of the famous old pacer and brood mare Pocahontas, 2:17^. (In Chapter XXIX., on the investigation of pedigrees, the history of Shanghai Mary is fully given.) Green Mountain Maid, the dam of Electioneer, has been called by Mr. Backman, and with justice, "the great mother of trotters." In all she bore sixteen foals, fourteen of which were by the not remarkable horse Messenger Duroc. Electioneer was her second foal and the only one by Hambletonian. Of the other fifteen, nine have records of 2:30 and better, another has a record

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