52 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE 



Volunteer, Happy Medium, Harold, Strathmore, Egbert, Dictator, 

 Dexter, Nettie (2:18), Orange Girl (2:20), Gazelle (2:21), Jay 

 Gould (2:21*-), and Bella (2:22). The first ten of these proved 

 very prepotent sires and thus demonstrated in an impressive 

 manner the value of their remarkable sire. 



PEDIGREE OF HAMBLETONIAN 10 (FOALED 1849) 



f Mambrino, by Engineer, 

 f Messenger (Thor-^ by Sampson 



! Mambrino (Tr.) \ oughbred) 1 780 [ Dam by Turf 

 1806 IMarebv j Sour Grout (imp.) 1786 

 y l 

 f Son of Messenger | Messen er 

 Amazonia(7>.)| Unknown \ 



C Bellfounder (Tr.) 

 rjary'sBell- ^ Unknown 



Charles Kent Mare H ir(7>v)r f Bishop's Hamble- C Messenger (imp.) 



! One Eye \ tonian (Tr.) ^Pheasant, by Shark 



f Messenger (imp.) 

 ^Silvertail ...,, 



\Black Jin (untraced) 



The Mambrino family. This family is named from Mambrino 

 Chief, foaled in 1844 and bred by Richard Eldridge of Dutchess 

 County, New York. Mambrino Chief was by Mambrino Pay- 

 master, and he by Mambrino, the Thoroughbred son of Messenger. 

 His dam is untraced. He was a dark-brown stallion about 16 

 hands high, by some referred to as coarse, though he proved 

 a very superior breeder. Mambrino Chief in 1854 was taken to 

 Kentucky, where he was in stud three seasons at Ashland Farms, 

 after which he was bought for $5020 by Gray and Jones of 

 Woodford County, in whose service he died in 1862. His son 

 Mambrino Patchen sired scores of trotters, while his daughter 

 Dolly was the dam of Onward, Director, and Thorndale, a remark- 

 able trio. Mambrino King, by Mambrino Patchen, was regarded 

 by many as the most beautiful horse in America in his day. 

 Woodford Mambrino, Mambrino Pilot, Fisk's Mambrino Chief, 

 and Ericsson were also successful sires by Mambrino Chief. Lady 

 Thorn, a daughter of Mambrino Chief, trotted 106 heats inside 

 2:30 and won national fame. The union of the descendants of 



