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the fastest and best horses, those showina; the best staving 

 and enduring qualities, are being produced bj breeding the 

 small, fine boned, enduring, cheerful, courageous female to 

 the coarser boned, larger sized, heavy trotting horse, the 

 produce taking their bottom, their nerve and their indomi- 

 table courage from the dam, and their square trotting, long, 

 low, sweeping stride from the sire. 



It was such mares that brought the Hambletonians, the 

 Abdallahs and the Henrys of Vermont in olden time, and 

 we stand higher to-day, a long way, in the estimation of 

 judges, as a horse breeding State, for those and their 

 descendants than for any other. Not long since, Mr. W. W. 

 Comee, of Boston, a man that stands high as a dealer in 

 fine horses, and as a critic of large opportunity and excel- 

 lent judgment, while looking over my stock from Mani- 

 brino Patchen and Landlord, remarked that they reminded 

 him of the Henrys that he used to see in this and neighbor- 

 ing counties years ago, and that he was exceedingly glad to 

 see such horses here, as he knew of no place where they 

 would be the means of so much improvement, and he would 

 rejoice again to see the day he could come here and get up 

 the magnificent bay team.s he used to do. 



Such has been the result in Kentucky, from crossing that 

 coarse old horse, Mambrino Chief, with their fine boned 

 thorough-breds, and Lady Thorn, Mambrino Pilot, Boy 

 Chief, Bold Chief, Ericson, Mambrino Bertie and many oth- 

 ers, well known to horsemen, are the products. 



Such has been the result in a marked degree, in Orange 

 County, New York, and vicinity, crossing Rysdyk's Ham- 

 bletonian, that double son of Old Messenger, through Ab 



