394 RACEALONG 



''When I got her home I had her leg bHstered 

 until we got the swelling down enough to find out 

 the trouble. The coffin joint was dislocated. We got 

 it in place after a lot of trouble, and then after a 

 few weeks' good feeding and full liberty in a good- 

 sized paddock I got a service to Bill Rysdyk's Ham- 

 bletonian, then a two-year-old. 



"The colt came on August 27, 1852, eight days less 

 than the eleven months, and I tell you, sir, that 

 little fellow was a picture to look at. He stood 

 straight up, and was a trotter, a natural trotter, 

 from the very minute his little foot touched the 

 ground. You could not scare him into a run, no how. 

 He was a little colt, but bright and upheaded, as 

 gimpy as a quarter horse, and just the same beau- 

 tiful color as his dam. In fact, he was all Katy 

 Darling in make-up, and nothing of the sire. His 

 dam was straight over the back, nicely turned quar- 

 ter, clean cut neck and head, and cordy legs. The 

 colt had it all. I paid the $50 and started in to 

 raise the colt. The mare I bred back to Hamble- 

 tonian, but she did not take again. Abdallah was 

 Hambletonian's third foal. He only had five in 1852. 



"To show you what a trotter he was. He was 

 dropped in the far corner of the field that had raised 

 a crop of corn. The stalks, about a foot high, were 

 of course mixed in with the grass, which had grown 

 up about level with, the top. When I would go out 

 to give the mare a drink she would trot to my end 

 and he would try to follow on a trot, but the stalks 

 hurt him and he would stop and call us, as much as 



