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of trotters. The conditions being a handsome horse, with the 

 banner constantly flying over him, "full brother to Lady Thorn," 

 an industrious and very capable owner, in the heart of the great- 

 est breeding region in the whole country, it is easy to account for 

 a very wide and lucrative patronage. Still, as a getter of speed 

 he was not a great success, and as a getter of high speed he was a 

 failure. With all the facilities for development, only twenty-five 

 of his progeny have found a place in the 2:30 list, the fastest of 

 which has a record of 2:20j-. Of his sons, fifty-one are the sires of 

 one hundred and twenty-six trotters, and of his daughters, ninety 

 have produced one hundred and twenty-nine standard per- 

 formers. He has proved himself a very great sire of brood mares, 

 and when his daughters are bred to horses of stronger inherit- 

 ance, they stand among the best. 



WOODFORD MAMBRIXO. This son of Mambrino Chief was a 

 large brown horse, foaled 1862. He was bred by Mr. Mason 

 Henry, of Woodford County, Kentucky. His dam was also the 

 dam of other trotters, was got by Woodford, son of Kosciusko, 

 and her dam was a farm mare without any known breeding. 

 Woodford was a large, strong horse used only for farm work, to 

 which he was well suited. After spending a good deal of time 

 and labor on his pedigree I am constrained to say that while he 

 may have been a son of Kosciusko, his dam's breeding is worse 

 than unsatisfactory. W^oodford Mambrino made a record of 

 2:21, and placed thirteen of his get in the 2:30 list. He left 

 twenty-three sons that were the sires of standard performers, 

 and twenty-four daughters that produced twenty-seven standard 

 performers. His son, Princeps, owned by Mr. R. S. Yeech, of 

 Indian Hill Farm, near Louisville, Kentucky, was in the stud 

 far and away the best of his sons, and although he had no record 

 of his own he placed in the list forty-four trotters and four 

 pacers, many of them with fast records. 



MAMBRIXO PILOT was a very large and very coarse horse. He 

 was a brown, got by Mambrino Chief, foaled 1859, dam Juliet, by 

 Pilot Jr.; grandam by Webster, son of Medoc; great-grandam by 

 Whip. He was bred by Thomas Hook, of Scott County, Kentucky, 

 and after passing through the hands of Dr. Herr and others 

 he was sold to C. P. Relf , of Philadelphia, and, I think, remained 

 in his family till he died, 1885. He had a record to saddle 

 of 2:27^. He put nine of his get into the 2:30 list, and seventeen 



