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to $5000.00. He was used under the saddle and 

 not in harness. Abdallah could trot under the 

 saddle in about 2 : 50, which was considered 

 fast at that time, but he was not popular with 

 breeders. At about the time he got Hamble- 

 tonian, or soon after, he was sold for five dollars. 

 Belfounder is said to have been able to trot a 

 mile in about three minutes. It is said that Old 

 Belfounder was a trotter in England, but his 

 history is unknown. Bishop's Hambletonian 

 belonged to a man who was fond of driving 

 ahead of every one else on the road, and he used 

 his horse for this purpose. 



The Kent Mare was a road mare put to breed- 

 ing after being crippled in a runaway. The 

 other animals in the female line, including the 

 dam of Silvertail, were used, from about 1790 

 to 1830, by a drover who traveled about New 

 York State collecting cattle and taking them to 

 market in New York and Albany. He did not 

 hesitate to force his mares to travel 100 miles 

 in one day. Velocity was a trotting race mare in 

 England. Amazonia was a coarse, "rat-tailed" 

 road mare, said to have got a record of 2 : 54 in 

 1820. 



Several of the 2 : 10 trotters are by sons of 

 Hambletonian. In those cases the pedigrees for 

 five generations go back to the birth of Messenger 

 in 1780 and include what is given in the pedigree 

 of Hambletonian. 



