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senger Duroc (son of Hambletonian) ; grandam Miss McLeod 

 (dam of Lord Nelson, 2:26, and Polonius), by the Holbert Colt 

 (son of Hambletonian) ; great-grandam May Fly, by Utter Horse, 

 son of Hoyt's Comet; great-great-grandam Virgo, sister to the 

 dam of Messenger Duroc, by Roe's Abdallah Chief, son of Ab- 

 dallah, the sire of Hambletonian. The Holbert Colt, son of 

 Hambletonian, was a pacer, and others in Egbert's ancestry paced; 

 and in commenting on his pedigree, from this point of view, at 

 the time Colonel West took him to Kentucky, I remarked in 

 Wallace's Monthly, March, 1880: "Colonel West need not be 

 surprised if he finds quite a number of Egbert's offspring start- 

 ing off at a pace." The facts have borne out the prediction, as a 

 glance at Egbert's long list of fast pacers will show. Egbert is 

 the sire of seventy-five standard performers, while twenty-five of 

 his sons, and eighteen of his daughters have produced seventy- 

 four standard performers. 



MASTERLODE, that left a family of some merit in Michigan, was 

 a mammoth bay, foaled 1868, got by Hambletonian out of Lady 

 Irwin by Seeley's American Star. He was a gigantic, coarse 

 horse, and was certainly the largest horse that ever earned 

 a reputation as a sire of trotters. It is said he was quite seven- 

 teen hands high and was built on a heavy mold even for his 

 height. He was bred by James M. Mills, Orange County, New 

 York, and passed to A. C. Fisk, Coldwater, Michigan, who 

 owned him until his death in 1892. The most noted of his get 

 was Belle F., 2:15^, that was one of the very best campaigners out 

 in 1886. He has twenty-eight to his credit in the list, and seven- 

 teen of his sons and sixteen of his daughters have produced in all 

 fifty-seven standard performers. 



ABERDEEN' shares with Dictator such honors as attach to the 

 highest success of the "Hambletonian-Star cross" in the stud. 

 This horse was bred by the notorious Captain Isaiah Rynders, at 

 Passaic, New Jersey, and a full account of the investigation of the 

 pedigree of his dam, the noted Widow Machree, 2:29, will be found 

 in Chapter XXIX., on the investigation of pedigrees. Widow 

 Machree was altogether the best trotter of the American Star 

 family, and was especially noted for her gameness. Bred to 

 Hambletonian, it was natural that she should produce a trotter, 

 and Aberdeen was quite a trotter in his day. As a three-year- 

 old he won a stake at Prospect Park, distancing his field in 2:46, 

 and the statement has been published that hs later in his career 



