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THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



ever would see. With the shroud of what "might have been" 

 about them, they were "of the same opinion still." 



Mambrino Chief left six in the 2:30 list; twenty-three sons that 

 put ninety-five in the list and seventeen daughters that produced 

 twenty-four trotters. 



LEADING SONS OF MAMBRINO CHIEF. 



MAMBRINO PATCHED was the best son of Mambrino Chief and 

 was brother to Lady Thorn, 2:18J. He was foaled 1862,, after the 

 death of his sire, and was bred by Levi T. Rodes. His dam was 

 by Gano, a running-bred son of American Eclipse; his grandam 

 was a pacing mare by a colt of Sir William, but what Sir William 

 is not known; his great-grandam was an inveterate pacer and 

 never was known to strike any other gait. Mambrino Patchen 

 was so much smoother and handsomer than his sire, and was so 

 much of a failure as a trotter, that a very strong conviction prevailed 

 among the friends and neighbors of his owner that he was not a son 

 of Mambrino Chief, nor a brother of Lady Thorn. To this story 

 that he was a Denmark and not a Mambrino Chief I never have 

 given any shadow of credence. The attempt of his owner, Dr. 

 Herr, to make him a trotter was patient and persistent, extend- 

 ing through several years, but with all his skill and experience he 

 failed. Nobody was ever able to "catch" him a mile, but it 

 seems to have been conceded that he might go somewhere in the 

 "forties." While this persistent and long-continued training 

 failed in its original purpose of giving the horse a record of repu- 

 table speed, there can be no doubt, under the law that governs, 

 .that this development did great good to the horse, as a progenitor 



