HAMBLETOXIAN AND HIS FAMILY. 



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credit of all the other sons of Hambletonian are grouped in the 

 last line: 



FAMILIES OF HAMBLETONIAN'S SONS. 



This table shows what each horse himself produced, and how 

 his blood is breeding on through his sons and daughters; and 

 above all it demonstrates the stupendous fact that in three gen- 

 erations the Hambletonian family has produced upward of seven 

 thousand standard performers, and all facts and all experience 

 now beyond cavil justify what I ventured to declare in Wallace's 

 Monthly many years ago: "The Hambletonian line stands above 

 all other lines and must survive because it is the fittest." 



THE CHAKLES KENT MARE, dam of Hambletonian, was a bay, 

 fifteen and three-quarter hands high, with a star, left forward 

 ankle roan, and left hind foot white. Her son was long and 

 round, just the opposite of her sire. Hips rather coarse, and might- 



