698 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, 
line to their common source the following tabulation, or ‘‘ genealog- 
ieal tree,” will suffice: 
Messenger 
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Manibriio Hambletonian  Siivertail 
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Mambrino Paymaster One Eye 
sali pai Kent Mare 
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Mamsrino CuHizr + 
HIAMBLETONIAN 
It will be seen that, while Mambrino Chief traced directly in one 
line through his sire, Mambrino Paymaster, and his sire, Mambrino, 
to Mess: nger, Hambletonian was in a somewhat remote degree im- 
bred to Messenger; besides the line through Abdallah, and his sire, 
Mambrino, he traces to the head of the ‘‘tree” through his dam, the 
Kent Mare, whose dam was One Eye, daughter of Bishop’s Hamble- 
tonian, son of Messenger. The dams of Mambrino Chief and Ab- 
dallah were mares of unknown blood, and the possible influence of 
these unknown mares in giving their sons the trotting force they had 
should not be ignored. But these are merely historical considera- 
tions, not matters for practical consideration for the breeder to-day. 
Mambrino was a bay horse, foaled 1806, bred by Lewis Morris, 
Westchester County, N. Y., and was by Messenger, out of a daugh- 
ter of imported Sour Crout. He never raced and was so little valued 
that history loses trace of him for part of his career. He died in 
Dutchess County in or about 1831. He was a large, coarse, leggy 
horse, with well-defined trotting action. 
His son Abdallah was bred by John Treadwell, Sailsbury, Long 
Island, and was foaled in 1823 by Amazonia, atrotting mare of un- 
known blood. He was an unattractive rat-tailed horse, of vicious 
temper, and was little valued at any time. §o lightly was he 
thought of in Orange County, so a writer states, that he wintered 
one year, within sight of the spot where his son Hambletonian after- 
wards lived in honor, with no better shelter than the leeward side of 
a haystack, Finally cast off, he was given to a Long Island farmer, 
who sold him to a fisherman for $35. The fisherman tried to harness 
him, but age had not subdued his ungovernable spirit and he rebelled 
with such violence that he was turned out and died of neglect and 
famine on the sandy beaches of Long Island. This wasin November, 
1854. He had trotted a mile in 3:10, it is stated, as a four-year-old, 
and considering that he never was broken, that this was his natural 
gait, it must be conceded he had some gift of speed. 
Abdallah, as we have seen, got Rysdyk’s Hambletonian out of 
the Charles Kent mare, by Imported Bellfounder, a reputed Nor- 
folk trotter, and the Kent mare’s dam was One Eye, by Bishop’s 
Hambletonian, son of Messenger. Besides this greatest of trotting 
progenitors, Abdallah got three trotters with records of 2:30 or bet- 
ter; many of his daughters produced trotters and sires and dams of 
trotters, and others of his sons contributed in minor degrees to trot- 
ting lines. ; 
Hambletonian was foaled in 1849, and was that year bought, with 
his dam, by William M. Rysdyk, of Chester, Orange County, N. Y., 
