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owned by B. A. Alexander, Lexington, Ky., is a black, and 

 was foaled about 1845. His darn was Nancy Pope, by Havoc, 

 a grandson of Diomed, and thus he takes the trotting from 

 both sides, and in excellent combination. He is the sire of 

 John Morgan, Jim Eockey, Tackey, Pilot Temple, Dixie, 

 Tattler, and many more. John Morgan was the closest com- 

 petitor of Flora Temple in her best days, and every way one 

 of the best trotters in the country. His dam was by Medoc, 

 a son of American Eclipse, and he thus had another cross of 

 Diomed, and one of Messenger. Tackey has trotted in 2m. 

 28s.; Pilot Temple, out of the dam of Flora Temple, trotted 

 in 1868 in 2m. 31s.; Jim Hockey trotted in 1859 in 2m. 32s.; 

 and Tattler, 5 years old, trotted in 1868 in 2m. 26s., a per- 

 formance that probably has never been equalled by any horse 

 of the same age. The famous twenty-miler, John Stewart, 

 is a descendant of Old Pilot, through Tom Wonder and Tom 

 Crowder the last, a son of the old pacer. 



A modern family, is composed of the descendants of 

 Mambrino Chief a horse that was bred in the East, and 

 taken to Kentucky by James B. Clay in 1854, where he died 

 in 1861. His sire was Mambrino Paymaster, by Mambrino, 

 the best son of Messenger in the trotting line. His fast pro- 

 geny is very numerous and very famous, and includes Lady 

 Thorn, Bay Chief, Mambrino Pilot, Ericsson, Mambrino 

 Patchen, Brignoli, Kentucky Chief, Ashland, &o. 



Lady Thorn stands first among all trotters now in public, 

 and second only to Dexter and Flora Temple. Her pedigree 

 and her performances are in perfect accord; the speed and 

 bottom both represented by three lines of descent from Mes- 

 senger, and three from Diomed; herself almost thorough- 

 bred. 



Bay Chief, unfortunately shot by guerrillas, trotted half 

 a mile when 4 years old in 1m. 8s., a performance rarely 

 equalled at any age. Ericsson trotted at 4 years old in 2m. 

 30 l-2s., to a wagon, and is now at the head of the large breed- 

 ing stud of K. C. Barker, Detroit, Mich. Brignoli, at 5 years 

 old trotted two-mile heats in harness in 5m. 20 l-2s., 5m. 18 

 l-2s., and 5m. 171-2s. Mambrino Patchen is a full brother 

 of Lady Thorn, and wretchedly misnamed, being related to 

 Patchen only in a remote degree, though both inheriting 

 largely the Messenger blood. 



The most distinguished son of Mambrino Chief, is Mam- 

 brino Pilot, owned by C. P. Keif, of Norristown, Pa. ; and, 

 though foaled so lately as 1859, is already distinguished as a 

 sire of trotters. He is a brown of large size and pony built, 



