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side in his coltliood. He was much admired, and sold for §500, when 

 one year and five months old, to Mr. Hezekiah Hoyt and Major Edsall, 

 both of the same county. Subseqviently he became the exclusive 

 property of Mr, Edsall, and was known as Edsall's Hambletonian. 



In 1856, at the age of four years, from a mare by old Abdallah, he 

 produced Goldsmith JNIaid. When seven years old, he was sold to 

 Joseph Love, of Cynthiana, Ky., for about $3,000, and taken to the 

 latter place about the 1st of March, 1859. He made four seasons at 

 his new Kentucky home, the first two at $25, and the last two at $30. 

 In the fall of 1862 he Avas sold to R. A. Alexander, the distinguished 

 breeder and proprietor of " Woodburn Farm," in "Woodford county, 

 Ky., the price paid being the stallion Forest Temple and $2,000 in 

 money. Among the pi'oduce of his first season in Kentucky was the 

 bay stallion Jim Monroe; and he has produced Lady Monroe, with a 

 record of 2:30^, and D. Monroe, with a record of 2:34. The second 

 season, from Lydia Talbot by Taylor Messenger, he produced Pacing 

 Abdallah, now owned by W. H. Wilson, of Cynthiana. During his 

 first season with Mr. Alexander, in 1863, from a mare by Mambrino 

 Chief, he produced Almont, and during the next season, from a mare 

 also by Mambrino Chief, he produced Thorndale, 2:22|-. Besides the 

 above, in his brief terra of stud service, he produced Rosalind, now 

 with a record of 2:21f ; Major Edsall, with a record of 2:29; and St. 

 Elmo, with a record of 2:30; Belmont, Abdallah Pilot, and others. 

 After passing into the hands of the proprietor of " Woodburn," his name 

 was changed to that of Alexander's Abdallah. As he was a young 

 stallion, and not yet famous as a sire of trotters, he is not credited 

 with a very large list of produce. Before any of his sons or 

 daughters had become known to fame, their sire — afterward to be- 

 come as celebrated as, and to add additional lustre to the renown of, 

 Hambletonian — was cut off; and in his premature death, the horrors 

 of civil war added another to the irreparable losses this country 

 has sustained in our memorable internecine strife. On the 2d day of 

 February, 1865, about 6 o'clock, p. M., a band of guerrillas, under one 

 Marion, visited " Woodburn," and took several horses, among them 

 Bay Chief, a son of Mambrino Chief, and Abdallah. They encamped 

 about twelve miles from " Woodburn," where they were attacked by a 

 Federal force early the next morning, and routed, the horses being 

 recaptured. Bay Chief was shot in several places during the fight, 

 and died from his wounds in about ten days. Abdallah was seized by 

 a Federal soldier, who refused to release him. The horse was unshod. 



