beautiful bells
Year of Birth:
1872
Immortal:
Yes
Elected as Immortal:
1976
Year of Death:
1904
Gait:
Trotter
Record:
t,2:29 1/2
Sire:
The Moor
Dam:
Minnehaha
Sire of Dam:
Bald Chief
Biography:
Beautiful Bells, by The Moor-Minnehaha, was the best known foundation mare at Leland Stanford's Palo Alto Farm. She 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. Beautiful Bells died in 1904 at age thirty-two.
Published in the Harness Racing Museum's 1994 book, The Immortals