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of a thoroughbred. Her record is only 2.18^, but she 

 beat all the fastest horses of her day, including Dexter, 

 Mountain B03-, Goldsmith Maid, American Girl, Lucy, 

 and George Palmer, and had it not been for an injury 

 to her hip received while she was being taken from 

 a car she would doubtless have lowered this record. 

 The accident compelled her retirement from the 

 turf. There is a tradition that Dan Mace once drove 

 Lady Thome a mile in 2.08 and a fraction, and it is 

 fairly well established that she trotted a trial mile 

 in 2.101. 



The best son of Mambrino Patchen is Mambrino 

 King. 1 now twenty years of age, but still a prize 

 winner at horse shows. There is a singular unanimity 

 of opinion about this animal, for, so far as I can as- 

 certain, all who have seen him pronounce Mambrino 

 Kino: to be the handsomest horse in the world. Such 

 is the judgment of Mr. Robert Bonner, for example, 

 in this country, of Mr. Burdett-Coutts in England, and 

 of those Continental connoisseurs in horse-flesh who 

 have visited this country. Among the latter is Baron 

 Favorot de Kerbeck, a French Colonel of Dragoons, 

 who. with two other officers, was sent to the United 

 States by his government, a few years ago, to inspect 

 our horses. He reported : — 



" Mambrino King is the most splendid specimen we 

 have had an opportunity of admiring. Imagine an 

 Alfred de Dreux, a burnt chestnut, whole colored, 

 standing 15.3 hands, with an expressive head, large, 

 intelligent, and spirited eyes, well opened lower jaws, 

 well set ears, the neck and shoulders splendidly shaped, 



1 His dam was by Edwin Forrest, a half-bred horse raised in 

 Kentucky. 



