TROTTERS. 569 



Book, and who contributed a large share of the blood 

 inherited by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, as we can see by 

 the accompanying pedigree table : 



a 



■a 



H 



Abdallah No. i. Chnrles Kent mare 



(a trotter). 



Rysdyk's Hambletonian No. 10. 



Bellfounder was brought from England about the year 

 1820, by a rich manufacturer named Boott, who advertised 

 hira as a Norfolk trotter that was capable of trotting 

 17 miles in an hour with 14 stone up. 



Rysdyk's Hambletonian (Fig. 564), who is the great 

 modern progenitor of fast trotters, is supposed to have 

 inherited much of his peculiar shape from Bellfounder. 

 He was 23 years old, when his photograph was taken 

 in 1872. Consequently, he looks somewhat out of shape, 

 and his back has sunk with age. Also, the photograph 

 has been evidently " faked." 



We learn from the ISIcw York Herald,, that " Rysdyk's 

 Hambletonian was foaled in 1849 at the little village of 

 Sugar Loaf in Orange County, N.Y., and began his 

 career as an obscure cross roads stud horse. Jonas 



