CONTENTS 



-OF- 



ORANGE COUNTY STUD BOOK. 



INTRODUCTION 7 



Climate of Orange County. ., 7 



BREEDING IN ORANGE COUNTY 



Imported Bellfounder 9 



Charles Kent Mare 10 



Abdallah 10 



Black Hawk 10 



Cassius M. Clay, Jr 10 



Harry Clay 10 



Black Harry Clay 11 



HAMBLETONIAN HISTORY OF 



Pedigree 12 



Shown at Fair at Goshen 13 



Mr. Rysdyk's Books 13 



Goldsmith's Maid 13 



FirstSeason 13 



Hiram Woodruff's opinion of Abdallahs 14 



Pronounced "King of Horses." 16 



SONS OF OLD HAMBLETONIAN 



Alexander's Hambletonian 18 



Captured by the Rebels 18 



Edward Everett 19 



Volunteer 19 



Middletown ; 20 



Happy Medium 21 



Idol 21 



Idol's Colts 22 



Sayer's Guy Miller 22 



AMERICAN STAR 



Pedigree 24 



His Pluck, Bottom and Speed 27 



American Star's Colts 30 



HISTORY OF THE HORSE 



Character of the Horse 31 



Wild Horses 33 



Foreign Breeds of Horses 34 



The Barb 35 



The Arab 35 



The Abyssinian 36 



The Australia.. 38 



