BEAUTIFUL BELLS blk. M, STANDARDBRED, 1872
| Color: blk Height: 2.29½
(USA)
Black, star, rh sock white. Bred by, L. J. Rose, Sunny Slope, San Gabriel, CA. Wallace's ATR, 1887, Vol.6, p.201 (BEAUTIFUL BELLS - with offspring 1880-1886);
Registered progeny: 8 colts, 6 fillies. Queen of the Broodmares.
She was the best known foundation mare at Leland Stanford`s Palo Alto Farm and was considered the premier trotting broodmare of the world. She produced a larger number of fast trotters than any other matron of her time. Beautiful Bells foaled eleven with Standard records and five with records below 2:20. She also had an extraordinary family of potent sons and daughters. It was her son Chimes who was the sire of three of the fastest trotters of their day: The Abbott, The Monk and Fantasy. dam of Bell Boy 2.19 1/4, Hinda Rose 2.19 1/2, Alcazar 2.20 1/2, Sweetheart 2.22 1/2. She died in 1904 at age thirty-two.
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