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was then considered an exorbitant price, Bellfounder 

 was patronised, for the Crabtree mare was his 

 daughter, and the mother of J. D. Sayer's Harry Clay, 

 who has proved himself a trotter, and the sire of trot- 

 ters. Bellfounder was the sire of the Charles Kent 

 mare, the mother of the celebrated stallion Hamble- 

 tonian, the property of the late Wm. M. Rysdyk, of 

 Chester, Orange County, N. Y. Of this horse and 

 his get, a place will be found in this book. We pass 

 through the years of our Hylanders, Hickories, Wild 

 Airs, Liberties, Lances, Bolivars, Ottoways, Bullfrogs, 

 and a host of others, many of whose get made good 

 mothers, properly bred, for they were all bred up. (See 

 article on breeding.) There was not much change in 

 breeding valuable horses until about the spring of 

 1 847, when Abdallah came into this county. He was 

 a big, coarse, homely horse ; and then the farmers first 

 began to look at and turn their attention, many of 

 them, to pedigree and blood. This horse Abdallah was 

 almost if not the first point made in Orange County in 

 bringing the breeding of trotters to the standard it has 



