| Color: ro
ATR 5060
Foaled 1878, Lexington, KY. Bred by William L. Simmons. Owned 1886 by Ash Grove Stock Farm, Lexington, KY. 2:31¾m Sire of 111 trotters (2:06 1/4), 13 pacers (2:09 1/4); 37 sires of 301 trotters, 99 pacers; 54 dams of 65 trotters, 7 pacers. Purchased from Simmons' Estate by W.A. Bacon Jr., owner of Maplehurst Stock Farm of Paris, KY in 1898. Died at Maplehurst in 1906 where he is buried in a grave marked with a marble headstone. Epitaph reads: "It is always a Jay Bird."
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