RYSDYK'S HAMBLETONIAN 117 



Isaac Snediker, and after many changes of for- 

 tune died of starvation and neglect on a Long 

 Island Beach, and was buried in the sand. ... 



"The Charles Kent mare was a bay of 15.3 

 hands, foaled in 1834, with powerful stifles, and 

 as a four-year old trotted a mile under saddle in 

 2.41. She was by Bellfounder, a Norfolk trotter of 

 15 hands, imported from England to Boston in 

 1822, by James Bort. Imported Bellfounder was 

 foaled in 1815, and the blood of his sire, Bell- 

 founder, is at the foundation of the hackney 

 breed. One Eye, a determined mare by Bishop's 

 Hambletonian (son of Messenger), out of Silver- 

 tail, a hardy brown mare by Messenger, was the 

 dam of the Charles Kent mare, who found a 

 happy nick in Abdallah. 



" The fruit of this union was a bay colt, foaled 

 May 5, 1849, at Sugar Loaf, near Chester, 

 Orange County, New York. This colt, when five 

 weeks old, was purchased from the breeder, 

 Jonas Seely, by a plain farmer with a lean pocket- 

 book. The price named for mare and colt was 

 $125, and the farmer, William M. Rysdyk, sat 

 on the top rail of a fence and pondered for some 



