| Color: b Height: 2:12¼
(USA)
bred by A. J. Ramey, Higginsville, Mo.; passed to John R. Gentry, Hughesville, same place; Wallace's ATR, 1893, Vol.12, p.301; then to R. E. W. Stephenson, Liverpool, England; 1899 to John H. Shults, Parkville, N. Y.; then to A. E. Thompson, New York, N. Y.; then to Franklin Megargee, Coatsville, Pa.; Wallace's ATR, 1904, Vol.16, p.447; passed to W. E. D. Stokes, New York City, N.Y.; Wallace's ATR, 1909, Vol.18, p.450; Exported to UK where raced as Polly G. Returned to USA where had one foal before being killed by lightning;
== STORY (german), https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=asz&datum=18990004&query=(text:%22Polly+G.%22)&ref=anno-search&seite=1426; The swindler and fraudster Mr. Stephenson initially ran her as POLLY G. in France as a French horse. After the fraud was exposed, she was banned from all race tracks on the continent. Then he tried her in England under a new owner. At the end of 1899 she came back to America and was to be sold under false advertising. Poor animal...;
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