bred by Charles Backman, Stony Ford, NY, o/b Allen Farm, Mass. 1889. Came to William Russel Allen, Pittsfield/Mass. Was sold to Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (Austrian Empire) in 1901, bought by Adolf Winkler, stud Gestüt Kaplanhof, near Linz, Ober-Österreich till 1911; then was sold in Summer 1911 to Bavaria, Germany; Offspring: ~ 80 foals till 1911. Österreichisch-Ungarisches Traber-Zuchtbuch, 1919, Vol.4, p.1279;