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It is the testimony of several gentlemen who were familiar with 

 trotting affairs in the time of the Bellfounders, that a number of 

 them were skillfully and persistently trained and none of them 

 could trot faster than about 2 :50. The one exception to this fact so 

 widely established is the case of the dam of Hambletoriian. After 

 this filly passed into the hands of Peter Seely he gave some at- 

 tention irregularly to the development of her speed, and before 

 he sold her he gave her two trials to saddle on the Union Course 

 and she trotted in 2:43 and 2:41. As she was then but four years 

 old it is safe to conclude that she would have made a trotter, be- 

 yond all doubt. This is the only one, old or young, from the 

 loins of Bellfounder that ever trotted so fast. I once put the 

 question directly to Mr. Rysdyk as to whether the Kent Mure 

 was as good and as fast as her dam, One Eye, and he promptly re- 

 plied that One Eye was much the faster and greater mare. To 

 this answer he added that One Eye, under the same circum- 

 stances, would have been the equal of Lady Thorn or any other 

 that ever lived. This may account for the superiority of the 

 Kent Mare over all the other Bellfounders, and it may account 

 for the superiority of Hambletonian over all other stallions. 



BELLFOUXDER (BRONVX'S OR KISSAM'S), was a bay horse, foaled 

 1830, got by imported Bellfounder; dam Lady Alport, by Mam- 

 brino, son of Messenger; grandam by Tippoo, son of Messenger; 

 great-grandam by imported Messenger. With such breeding he 

 should have been a great horse. He was bred by Timothy T. 

 Kissam, of Long Island, and sold along with a full brother one year 

 younger, named Bellport, about 1834-5, to L. F. and A. B. Allen, 

 of Buffalo^ New York. Bellfounder was a bay horse, sixteen 

 hands high, and Bellport was sixteen and one-half hands, but was 

 poisoned and died at four years old. Bellfounder passed into 

 the hands of some parties at Cleveland and then to Mr. Brown, of 

 Columbus, Ohio, made most of his seasons in that portion of the 

 State, and died September, 1860. This was altogether the most 

 valuable son the imported horse left indeed the only one that 

 made any mark in the world. He was not much of a trotter and 

 did not get trotters, but got colts that were excellent types of 

 the coach horse, and for that purpose was very highly esteemed. 

 Some of his sons and daughters, especially the latter, are met 

 with sometimes in trotting records as having produced some- 

 thing that had more or less speed. 



COXQUEROR was a bay gelding, foaled 1842, and got by Lat- 



