116 THE HORSE IN AMERICA 



American horse annals. Now, here is one side of 

 the Hambletonian story, and I take the liberty of 

 quoting from Mr. Hamilton Busbey, a noted 

 writer on trotting horses, and the editor of a pa- 

 per devoted to trotting horse interests. He says : 



"Lewis G. Morris bred a mare by imported 

 Sour Grout to Messenger, and the produce in 

 1806 was a bay colt who developed into a horse 

 of 16 hands, and is known to history as Mam- 

 brino. He was never trained in harness, but was a 

 natural trotter. Betsey Baker, the fastest mare 

 of her day was sired by him. Amazonia, a snappy 

 chestnut mare of 15.3 hands, showing quality, 

 but of untraced blood, and who could trot to 2.50 

 was bred to Mambrino, and whose outcome was 

 Abdallah, whose register number is I. He was 

 bred by John Tredwell, of Saulsbury Place, Long 

 Island, was foaled in 1823, and developed into a 

 bay horse of 15.3. As a four-year old, he trotted 

 a mile in 3.10, but was not kind in harness, and 

 was principally used under saddle. He made sea- 

 sons on Long Island, in New Jersey, and in 

 Orange County, and spent 1840 in the Blue 

 Grass Region of Kentucky, In 1830 he passed to 



