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were sons of Harris's Hambletonian, who died of 

 an injury in December, 1846. 



Judson's Hambletonian was a brown horse, 

 foaled in 1821, by Bishop's Hambletonian, dam 

 by Wells's Magnum Bonum. He stood 15.2, and 

 it is represented that he could trot 12 miles 

 within an hour. He died in 1844, an d his mem- 

 ory is preserved by his son, Andrus Hamble- 

 tonian, a brown horse foaled about 1840 and 

 taken to Muscatine, Iowa, in the winter of 1855- 

 1856, and who died there in 1858. He was 

 a bay of nearly 15.3 hands, but was not so much 

 appreciated in Vermont as he should have been. 

 He was the sire of the famous trotting mare 

 Princess, 2.30, the earnest rival of Flora Temple, 

 and who, in her retirement, gave birth, in 1863, 

 to the distinguished sire of trotters, Happy 

 Medium. In the latter the wonderfully potent 

 blood of Messenger was reunited through 

 Hambletonian, the sire of Happy Medium. 



Mambrino, sire of Messenger, was a gray horse 

 of lofty appearance, and he laid in England the 

 foundation of some of the finest coach horses 

 ever raised there. He was bred by John Atkin- 

 son of Scholes near Leeds, England, foaled in 

 1 768 ; by Engineer, dam by Old Cadde ; second 



