BREEDING THE TROTTER 



sidered the best daughter of Golddust to Rysdyk's 

 Hambletonian, hoping to get a stallion colt. The 

 produce was the mare Bay Hambletonian. He 

 bred the Golddust mare back and that fall shipped 

 the mare and filly at side to Kentucky, via Buf- 

 falo. He unloaded at East Buffalo in order to 

 give the mare and colt a rest, and invited his 

 friend, Mr. Hamlin, to see them. Mr. Hamlin 

 liked both so well he bought them for twelve hun- 

 dred dollars, as I remember it. Unfortunately, 

 the mare proved not with foal and was barren for 

 several seasons. Finally, to the service of Ham- 

 lin Patchen, Golddust produced Black Golddust, 

 dam of Justina (2.13 to pole, 2.20 to harness) and 

 Glendennis (2.17*4), and grandam of The Monk 

 (2.05%), etc. 



WOFUL. 



In 1873 Mr. Hamlin bought Woful by Min- 

 chen's Woful, from a Mr. Minchen of Orange 

 County, N. Y. She is the third dam of Pass- 

 ing Belle (2.08^) and the fourth dam of Lord 

 Derby (2.05%) (winner of seventy-four thousand 

 eight hundred and twenty-five dollars on the 

 Grand Circuit), Fantasy (2.06) and Shadow 

 Chimes (2.05). 



MERMAID AND DICTATOR MAID. 



In 1875 Mr. Hamlin purchased Mermaid and 

 Dictator Maid, both by Dictator, paying for the 

 former twenty-five hundred dollars and the latter 

 fifteen hundred dollars. He liked the Dictator 



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