156 IIAMBLETONIAN. 



Abdallah, the sire of Hambletonian, was a horse ot very remarkable 

 and positive character. He was bred by John Tredwell, on Long- 

 Island, and was foaled in the year 1823 according to some accounts, and 

 according to others in the year 1835 or 1826. He died in November,. 

 1854, from neglect and ill-treatment, but for which cause he would 

 probably have survived several years longer. It is asserted by some 

 who knew him well, that he died in 1852, but there is one thing that 

 is noticeable in the history of Abdallah and his dam — no one is alile 

 to give any definite information as to dates or origin or history, such 

 as we usually receive in regard to animals that have been regarded as 

 valuable in their day and generation. 



This is readily accounted for in this case from the fact that Abdal- 

 lah was not highly esteemed in his day outside of a small number of 

 persons. He had, in himself, so much that was positively forbidding 

 that he was patronized not so much for what he was as for what they 

 hoped to derive from him — and finally, his chief merit in the estima- 

 tion of all persons, except perhaps his owners, was founded in the 

 high qualities of his produce. I say, except his owners, and there is 

 much in the history of the late years of the horse and the ill-treatment 

 he received to show that even his owners esteemed him more hateful 

 than lovely. But for this fact, his value to the world in his last years 

 might have been doubled. 



Mr. Tredwell, the breeder of Abdallah, sold him in April, 1830, 

 to Isaac Snediker, and then gave a letter or statement, among other 

 things saying that he was then seven years old, and that at three years 

 of age he received eight mares, and did no service at four. 



It is elsewhere stated that in 1828 and 1829, he stood at the place 

 of his owner on Long Island; in 1830, at Flatbush and Gravesend ; 

 in 1831, two miles from Jamaica, Long Island; and that he continued 

 on Lonn; Island and in New Jersey until the fall of 1839, when he was 

 sold to John W. Hunt, of Lexington, Kentucky, for $1,300; that he 

 was sent there on foot in the spring of 18-40, arriving in poor condition, 

 and after making one season there, and not meeting with much favor 

 among the Kentucky breeders, he was resold to parties in New York, 

 returned thither and passed several years on Long Island and in Orange 

 county. 



While at Chester, Orange county, he was wintered by standing out 

 in the bleak winds, exposed to the pelting storms of a Northern 

 winter, by the side of a haystack within sight of the place where his 

 renowned son Hambletonian spent his days and died full of years and 



