RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



Chester, Orange County, and stood there from April, 

 1846, to April, 1849. The fate of this fine horse 

 was melancholy. In the spring of 1854 William 

 Simonson (his owner) let a farmer take him to make 

 a season near Fire-place, a remote hamlet on Long 

 Island, where his value was wholly unknown. Mr. 

 Simonson gave Abdallah to the farmer out and out, 

 with the proviso that he should take care, good care, 

 of him as long as he lived, the old horse then being 

 twenty-nine years of age. But the farmer, suppos- 

 ing Abdallah to be too old for further service, sold 

 him to a fisherman for $35. The fisherman at- 

 tempted to drive him to his wagon; the old horse 

 resented the degradation, smashed the fish wagon to 

 atoms, and so frightened the fisherman that he never 

 dared to attempt anything further with him; he 

 turned him out to run upon the beach, where there 

 was not herbage enough to afford sustenance for a 

 goat. Mr. Simonson, hearing of this barbarism, 

 hastened to Abdallah's rescue, but, when he arrived 

 in the fisherman's neighborhood, he found the old 

 horse dying of starvation, and, waiting till he ex- 

 pired, Mr. S. buried him in the sand of the beach. 

 This occurred in November, 1854." 



The Charles Kent mare by imp. Bellfounder, out 

 of One Eye by imp. Messenger, was bred to Ab- 

 dallah, and the fruit was Rysdyk's Hambletonian, 

 born In 1849, ^^^ who is now recognized as the 

 greatest of trotting progenitors. Mambrino Pay- 

 master, sire of Mambrino Chief, another great trot- 

 ting progenitor, was from the loins of Abdallah. The 

 thoroughbred who sired Abdallah has but few rep- 

 resentatives on the running turf. Miller's Damsel, 



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