THE NATIONAL HORSE OF AMERICA, 697 
daughter of Winthrop Messenger, was a great trotter in her time, 
and to Imported Trustee she produced the famous Trustee that trotted, 
in 1848, 20 miles in 59:353. He was the first horse to trot 20 miles 
within the hour; to this day only six have done it, and it is earnestly 
to be desired by every decent horseman that no horse will ever again 
be subjected to this cruel exaction. A course parallel to that which 
produced Belle Strickland brought State of Maine, a horse of some 
merit. He was got byasonof Winthrop Messenger, out of a daugh- 
ter of Winthrop Messenger. Through numerous other channels 
much of the best horse stock of Maine trace to Winthrop Messenger. 
Bishop’s Hambletonian, originally called Hamiltonian, was a bay 
horse, foaled 1804, bred by General Coles, at Dosoris, Long Island, and 
was by Imported Messenger out of Pheasant, by Imported Shark. 
He was as a race-horse quite nearly first class, especially at long dis- 
tances, being successful at 4 miles. Hewasthe best of all Messenger’s 
progeny as arace-horse, if weexcept Miller’s Damsel, the dam of Amer- 
ican Kclipse. Asa sire of trotters and trotting progenitors he won 
distinction. One of the most gifted of early turf writers, who wrote 
with singular severity of this horse, conceded that ‘‘ he got some 
excellent roadsters, good trotters,” but probably in so speaking of the 
race-horse the writer meant to be anything but complimentary. 
Among the progeny of Bishop’s Hambletonian the most distin- 
guished on the trotting turf were the famous Whalebone and another 
early trotter of less note, Sir Peter. In 1830 and 1831 the former 
ranked with the best of his day as a long distance trotter, and has 
to his credit a performance of 32 miles in 1:58:05. Daughters of 
Bishop’s Hambletonian produced Paul Pry and Topgallant, both being 
by other sons of Messenger, and they were the first trotters of their 
time. The latter trotted 3 miles in 8:11 in 1829. The most noted 
progeniters of trotters left by Bishop’s Hambletonian were his sons 
Harris’s Hambletonian and Judson’s Hambletonian. The former 
sired Green Mountain Maid, 2:284+; Lady Shannon, 2:283; Hero, pac- 
ing record, 2:204, and others of less note. A son of his sired Joker, 
2:225, and six of his daughters have produced trotters. Major Ed- 
sall, the sire of Robert MacGregor, 2:17, was out of a daughter 
of Harris’s Hambletonian, as was also Cuyler, Stillson, and other 
sires of note yet living. Judson’s Hambletonian was less distin- 
guished than Harris’s, but his blood enters into severai lines, the most 
prominent being through his son Andrus’s Hambletonian, the sire of 
the trotting mare Princess, that, after meeting the best campaigners 
of her day from the Pacific to the Atlantic, made still more firm her 
rank in the records asthe dam of Happy Medium, one of the greatest 
trotting sires the world has yet produced. 
Coming to Mambrino, in a trotting sense the greatest son of Mes- 
senger, we reach the keystone of our subject, for from his loins came 
two lines, the greatest in all trotting history. One son of Mambrino 
gave us the sterling Mambrino Chief family of trotters; another got 
Rysdyk’s Hambletonian, far and away the greatest of all trotting 
progenitors. The latter founded a trotting family with which none 
other can compare and to which none approach, and his blood has, 
it is truly said, ‘‘raised the trotting horse of America to the highest 
point of excellence.” Mambrino Paymaster, son of Mambrino, sired 
Mambrino Chief, the founder of the Mambrino Chief family: and 
Abdallah, son of Mambrino, sired Rysdyk’s Hambletonian. Toshow 
the descent of these two heads of the chief trotting families, to dem- 
onstrate their closeness in blood, and to trace them in the direct 
