170 CYCIOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOft. 



been foaled in 1815. At five years old he trotted two miles in six min- 

 utes, and the next jeai-, trotted nine miles in twenty-nine minutes and 

 thirty-eiglit seconds. Velocity, Lis dam, by Haphazard, trotted, in 1806, 

 sixteen miles in an hour, and in 1808 trotted twenty-eight miles in an 

 hour and forty-seven minutes ; wonderful work it was for that day, and 

 would be so considered, if performed by a horse of the presort time. 



Bellfounder's Ancestry. — Bellfounder was not thoroughbred. He 

 was sired by Fireaway out of a Shields mare. The Shields horse, oth- 

 erwise called "Shales," in England nearly one hundred years ago were 

 hackneys, or, as we would now call them, road and trotting horses. Had 

 the English people cultivated driving, as they did riding, America might 

 not stand unrivalled, as she does to-day, in the pre-eminence of her road 

 and trotting horses. 



rv. The Modern Trotter. 



Our account of modern trotters would be incomplete if we should 

 wholly omit to mention that wonderful descendant of Hambletonian, 

 Lady Suffolk. Nor must the Morgans be forgotten. The Canadian 

 l.'ottcrs also claim remembrance ; notable among wiiich -were those won- 

 derful little pony-horses, many of them not fourteen hands hign, known 

 as the St. Laurences, from the name of their sire. The best of them 

 were good for a three-minute gait on the road, before a buggy ; for ener- 

 gy, docility, speed and tireless endurance, while drawing the load of a 

 horse, they have seldom been equaled among animals of their size. But 

 it is our purpose more especially to notice the famous trotters of the 

 hist twenty years. 



Goldsmith Maid and Abdaliah. — Among the galaxy of wonderful per- 

 formers, none surpass Goldsmith Maid. This remarkable mare was 

 foaled in 1857. Her sire was Edsall's Hambletonian, and her dam a mare 

 by old Abdaliah. Abdaliah Avas a Hambletonian. In 1862 he became the 

 propcily of R. A. Alexander, the celebrated Kentucky breeder of thorough- 

 breds, and was thereafter known as Alexander's Abdaliah. Earl}-^ in 

 1865, this Abdaliah, together with several other valuable horses, among 

 them Bay Chief, a son of Mambrino Chief, w^as seized by Guerillas. 

 Shortly after, in an attack upon the guerillas by Federal soldiers, Abdal- 

 iah fell into the hands of one of the attacking party, who refused to give 

 him up. This magnificent stallion, unshod and wholly out of condition 

 for hard service, Avas nevertheless ridden day after day, over the roughest 

 and hilliest road, until at last, completely exhausted, he was turned 

 loose on the w ayside,and died of pneumonia. 



Abdaliah as a Sire. — To show what might have come of this horse, had 

 he bVed. it is only necessary to mention some of his offspring and to note 



