268 ALEXANDER'S ABDALLAH AND DESCENDANTS. 



BELlVrONT. 



This horse was foaled in 1864. He was bred by R. A. Alexander^ 

 at Woodburn Farm, Kentucky, and is now owned by A. J. Alexan- 

 der, the proprietor of Woodburn. His dam was Belle, by Mambrino- 

 Chief; 2d dam by Ohio Bellfounder. He is a light bay, with black 

 points, of very compact form, and muscular body and superior limbs. 

 He is a fine-appearing horse in harness, carrying his head and tail at 

 fine elevation, and displaying great style and spirit. At one period 

 he was regarded as the most promising stallion of the Blue Grass- 

 region; but he has not wholly maintained the high promise with 

 which he started out — not so much because he has fallen below, aa 

 because the others have gone above. He is the sire of several very 

 promising young trotters, and with many is at all times a favorite sire. 

 He has to his credit Dick Moore, 2:29, and four heats in 2:30 or bet- 

 ter; Nil Desperandum, 2:24^, and eleven heats; and Nutwood, 2:23^^ 

 and twenty heats in 2:30 or better. Belmont has no public record, 

 but has shown himself to be a trotter worthy of his sire and his other 



distinguished kindred. 



THORNDALE. 



Thorndale was foaled in May, 1865, was bred by Dr. J. R. Adams, 

 near Georgetown, Ky., and sold, in 1868, to Edwin Thorne, Esq., of 

 Duchess county, N. Y. His first dam was a bay mare, foaled in 1860, 

 by Mambrino Chief; second dam by a son of Potomac; and his third 

 dam by Saxe Weimar; the two latter being thoroughbred crosses 

 running back to imp. Diomed. Thorndale is a bright bay stallion^ 

 with white hind feet, 15 hands 1^ inches in height. His general 

 appearance and make-up is Hambletonian — the only place where his 

 Mambrino Chief blood stands out clearly to view is in his head, which 

 is one inch longer, and across the hips, which, from centre to centre, 

 are one inch wider than the Hambletonian standard. He shows great 

 finish, and quality of the highest order. His form is what is called 

 close and compact, and rather pony-built. He is exactly the same 

 height on the withers and on the rump. His limbs are of the clean, 

 flat and blood-like pattern; his forearm muscular, and his hock of the 

 clearest and best model; and in the thighs, quarters and haunches he 

 is exceedingly strong. A writer in the second volume of The Horses 

 of America^ says that " he has greater length from the point of the 

 hip to the whirlbone, and thence to the hock, than any other trotting 

 stallion known to the writer." This is perhaps not quite correct. He 



