CHAPTER XIL 



ALEXANDER'S ABDALLAH AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 



Fame belongs not alone to the living — the dead, although they 

 shine not with living splendor, deserve honorable mention when the 

 world has been benefited by their Hves. 



In the year 1851, there lived, in the village of Warwick, in Orange 

 county, N. Y., a little bay mare, 15 hands 1 inch in height, of a gamy, 

 wiry look, that had endured ill usage, and could only stand on three 

 of her feet, the other leg having been broken or dislocated at the 

 ankle. She was a trotter of some repute, but accident and misfortune 

 had left her in the disabled state above described. She was famil- 

 iarly known in the vicinity of her owner, Mr. Lewis J. Sutton, as Katy 

 Darling, and often trotted, cripple though she was, in about three 

 minutes, and won small purses, made up for these occasions. Of her 

 pedigree, or breeding, it must be said, nothing can be stated with any 

 degree of certainty. She has been said to have been a daughter of 

 Bay Roman, and that her dam was by Young Mambrino, son of Mam- 

 brino. Bay Roman was by imp. Roman, from the Pinckney Mare, 

 said to have been by Hickory, and Hickory's dam was by Mambrino — • 

 but it must be stated that no part of this alleged pedigree of the mare 

 can be satisfactorily authenticated; I give it as it has come dovra, and 

 can only add, that the qualities of the mare go as far as anything else 

 to render it probable. She was raised in the vicinity of the city of 

 New York, and was, beyond doubt, highly bred. In her crippled and 

 almost deformed condition, she was sent to a young stallion, then two 

 years and three months old, and was one of four mares received by 

 him as a two-year-old. That stallion was the afterward celebrated 

 Hambletonian. 



On the 32d day of September, 1852, this mare foaled, and her colt 

 grew to be a nice bay stallion about 15 hands 3 inches in height, 

 with one hind foot white, and was a natural trotter by his mother's 



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