ABERDEEN. 2.')1 



powerfully formed quarters, and a tolerably fair set of limbs. His head 

 is a finely formed one, and he has a face that indicates the high 

 degree of intelligence that in so great a measure marks this branch 

 of the family. He has trotted twenty heats in 2:30 or better, and 

 reached a record of 2:21|^, and in addition is credited with one son, 

 King Philip, a young horse only five years old, that has trotted nine 

 lieats in 2:30 or better, and reached a record of 2:21. It is worthy of 

 remark in this connection that Jay Gould differs fi-om all the other 

 sons of this cross in having a short thigh — only 22 inches in length — 

 "which is two inches shorter than other stallions I have seen of the 

 same cross. This can only be accounted for by the possible fact that 

 in his grandam there was a much larger quantum of Messenger 

 blood than her pedigree discloses. His success in the stud, and his 

 own great excellence, together with this shortening of the Duroc thigh, 

 incline me to the belief that he is very strong in Messenger blood. 

 He certainly stands first on the list of stallions produced by Hamble- 

 tonian from Star mares. 



ABERDEEN. 



Aberdeen is a dark bay horse, 15 hands 3 inches in height, very 

 short in the back, a higher and less drooping rump, and has the ap- 

 pearance of a very short, com2:)act and heavy horse. He weighs over 

 1,200 lbs., and is a horse of a powerful back and loin, but more of a 

 beefy-looking animal, and has less of the finely-drawn muscular 

 ■development that appears in others of this family. I would say that 

 he had stouter and sounder feet and lea-s than some others of this 

 cross, but his legs are far from satisfactory. They do not show the 

 blood-like appearance that wovild be expected from the blood of his 

 dam — if her claim stopped even with her Star sire — and certainly not 

 what should be expected from a double cross of Abdallah. I even 

 say, if this horse has two crosses of Abdallah, that famous blood has 

 not stood out for its own individuality as in most other cases. He 

 has very little of the distinctive Abdallah appearance. His dam was 

 the celebrated Widow Machree, one of the most noted trotters of the 

 Star family. Aberdeen, as a sire, has acquired some reputation, mainly 

 on the produce of one mare, from which he has several likely young 

 colts; but I must say, in all candor, that were I searching for a young 

 sire to perpetuate the name of Hambletonian, I should not stop with 

 the family of the Widow Machree. 



