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the fame of his sister added largely to his list of 

 visitors. The Mambrino Patchen family is the 

 most prepotent of the Mambrino Chief tribe. 

 Dr. Herr was a quiet, observing man, but his face 

 always flushed with pride when showing Mam- 

 brino Patchen to appreciative men. He was a 

 horse of 1 6 hands, of symmetry and lofty carriage, 

 and his well-groomed black coat was brilliant in 

 the sunshine which fell upon the oaks and 

 maples of Kentucky. 



Lady Stout, a chestnut filly, foaled in 1871, by 

 Mambrino Patchen out of Puss Prall by Mark 

 Time, was the first three-year-old to trot in 2.29, 

 and she was the sensation of the hour. Columns 

 were written about the evils of early development, 

 but Dr. Herr was not upset by criticism. Lady 

 Stout passed into the stable of Robert Bonner 

 and was used by him as a brood mare. Car- 

 tridge, 2.14^, was out of her. 



The best of the 25 trotters sired by Mambrino 

 Patchen were London, 2.20^; Katie Middleton, 

 2.23; and Mambrino Kate, 2.24; but nearly three 

 score of his sons obtained recognition as sires of 

 speed, and more than five score of his daughters 

 are dams of trotters. From one of his sons, 

 Mambrino Boy, came the dam of Allerton, 2.09^, 



