138 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



saddle, harness, and trotting course. He entered 

 the stud in 1810, and it was in Orange County 

 that he sired Whalebone and Sir Peter (trotters) 

 and the dams of Topgallant and Paul Pry, also 

 One Eye, dam of Charles Kent Mare, dam of 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian. He was used in har- 

 ness after he was fifteen years old, showing a 

 high rate of speed, for those days, on the road. 

 Isaac Bishop of Granville, New York, bought the 

 stallion in 1819, and as the Bishop place was near 

 the Vermont line, seasons were made in both 

 states. The inclination to trot was strong in the 

 majority of his foals. Bishop's Hambletonian 

 was fond of being petted, and Mrs. Bishop often 

 fed him bread and cake from the kitchen door. 

 After the death of Isaac Bishop, in 1831, the 

 horse was taken charge of by his brother, J. M. 

 Bishop. 



Age had told upon the stallion, and Allen W. 

 Thomson narrates this pathetic incident : " It 

 was in September, 1833, that the gate to his yard 

 was left open and he walked out and started for 

 his old home, it being about two miles. He had 

 to go through the village of Granville, and as he 

 passed the cry was raised, ' There goes old Ham- 

 bletonian,' and the boys gave him a cheer. He 



