general characteristics aga,in appear, although not ■ in sOj grgat ,4eg:ree 

 as in Sampson. , _ , 



The dam of Ehgmeer seems to have been a blooa nlare, b^ Y cfung 

 Greyhound, and his girandam was by Curwen's bay Barb — a ver^^ 



popuUr horse, from Morocco — present©^ toi'OW^ifXIYlof FigniP^ b;gj 

 Muley Ishmail of Morocco. . ■ . j'I ''i "sud :.i '■ '(/.r v.4;a ;^..i ]Lr.v 



Engineei*, though rough and coarse as might haVe beeh expected,' 

 was a horse of great substance/ aiid -<vOil seven facJeS'^otit df^twe'lv^ 

 while oji the turf, and produced in the stud several good aiiimal^,; the' 

 best of which was Mambrino. This latter horse reproduced much o|| 

 the coach-horse coarseness of Sampson. He was a grey, , with an^ 

 immense forequarter and shoulder, rising into a crest, wholly tmlikec 

 any blood horse that ever appeared on the turf. He was stout irf 

 every point — bone, sinew and muscle. Whyte, a recent historian of 

 the English turf, says of him, that he was site of a great' many fexcfel- 

 lent hunters and strong, useful road horses; and it has been said of 

 him that from his blood the breed of horses for the coach was brought 

 nearly to its present state of pT3rfection. -^ ''■'■' ,-: "^J 



The coarseness of Mambrino, like that of Sampson, seems toitavd' 

 been only in the great weight and size of his bone and frame, for h^ 

 evinced no lack of superior quality. His dam was a daughter of 

 Cade, a son of the Godolphin Arabian. • ■' 



From all the accounts that come to us, these two horses seem to 

 have been the strongest and heaviest boned animals of the English 

 turf; and aside from the color of Sampson — black being the prevail-' 

 ing color in one family of English cart or heavy road horses — -they 

 each possessed and transmitted to their descendants other qualities 

 not characteristic of the highly and purely bred race-horse. They 

 had elements of a trotting or road gait — the way of going adopted oi? 

 chosen by all animals that travel in harness on the road — and which is 

 more' suitable for that way of going than any other gait. This fact is 

 eminently sviggestive that there mu^t have been some real truth in the 

 reported coach-horse paternity of Sampson; and the only real argu* 

 ment against the acceptance of this story is the almost prodigious 

 merit and capability of both Sampson and his grandson, Mambrino. i 



Sampson, coach-horse as he was, appeared almost as great a prodig3^ 

 as Flying Childers or Eclipse, neither of which was ever beaten in a 

 race. Sampson, as a race-horse, beat all his competitors in races of 

 four miles and under, until his last race, in which he won-the first 

 heat. 



..^.rf. *^ ..U-ii. 



