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1856, and one of his foals of the season was Gold- 

 smith Maid, 2.14. In February, 1859, James 

 Miller and Joel Love paid $3000 for Edsall's 

 Hambletonian and took him to Cynthiana, Ken- 

 tucky. In 1862 the horse was purchased by 

 R. A. Alexander of Woodburn Farm, and from 

 that time forward he was known as Alexander's 

 Abdallah. The Federal and Confederate armies 

 were then contending for the control of Kentucky, 

 and peaceful industries were heavily handicapped. 

 In February, 1865, Alexander's Abdallah was 

 captured by a guerilla band, and ridden so hard 

 that he died of exhaustion. His sire outlived him 

 1 1 years. The monument over the grave at 

 Chester, a solid block of red Missouri granite, 

 briefly informs the passer-by that Rysdyk's Ham- 

 bletonian died March 27, 1876, aged 26 years, 

 10 months, and 22 days. Alexander's Abdallah 

 stood 15.1 and was a compact horse with a long 

 neck. His only race was a match against the 

 stallion Albion, trotted at Lexington in 1860. 

 Albion was distanced in the first heat, and the 

 time was 2.42. Katy Darling, who died in Iowa, 

 produced one other foal, a chestnut colt by 

 Hector, who was gelded, and who for want of 

 merit or opportunity remained obscure. If the 



