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HAMBLETOXIAIf PRINCE. 



This stallion is a bay, foaled in 18(53, and registered in the first vol- 

 ume of the Trotting Register by the name of Supervisor. He is owned 

 by Messrs. David and Sidney A. Baird, of Otsego county, New York. 

 Not having had an opportunity of inspecting this horse, and he being 

 one that represents the class of strong and close breeding in the 

 Messenger blood, I am unwilling to pass him without notice in this 

 Avork. I therefore copy from Wallace's Monthly a description, from 

 the pen of a well known correspondent of the turf journals, as fol- 

 lows: 



"HAMBLETOis'iAif Prince. — Bay stallion, Avith oiF hind ankle white, 

 a;id two small stars in forehead, one on the nose, with mottled flanks, 

 fifteen and one-half hands high. Bred by Edwin Thorne, Thorndale, 

 Duchess county, New York; got by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, dam 

 Nellie Cammeyer (who trotted in 2:32) — by Cassius M. Clay; g. d. by 

 Chancellor, son of Mambrino; g. g. d. by Mount Holly, son of imp. 

 Messenger; g. g. g. d. by Engineer, son of imp. Messenger. Hamble- 

 tonian Prince was purchased by Mr. Baird, in February, 1873, of Mr. 

 Joseph Mattison, New York. He had not served a mare up to the 

 time of passing into Mr. Baird's hands, consequently his eldest colts 

 are now only five years old. He is a stoutly made horse, capital legs 

 and feet, very evenly balanced, quiet in disposition, yet full of life, 

 and beautifully gaited. He was never regularly trained, but was 

 driven by Alexander Patterson in 2:40, when four years old, and 

 would trot very fast, if his engagements in the stud would permit of 

 his being trained. One of the first of his get, Helene, chestnut filly, 

 sold to W. B. Gould, Newark, New Jersey, won second money in the 

 Country Gentleynan Stake for three-year-olds, at Albany, in Septem- 

 ber, 1876, in 2:47^; and at the Otsego County Fair, two weeks later, 

 she trotted in the mud in 2:40^. In 1877 she was trained but a little, 

 as her new owner preferred to have a sound and coming trotter, rather 

 than a broken-down colt, with a mere colt reputation. Still, with 

 moderate work, she trotted in 2:36^. She is beautifully gaited, fifteen 

 and three-quarter hands, and like all of his get, of endless endurance. 

 Susan F. Cooper, owned by P. Kelly, West Troy, New York, of the 

 same age, trotted a half mile, driven by her owner to a wagon in 1:20, 

 and had not been to a track a half-dozen times. Happy Traveller, 

 another of the same age, and out of Lady Larkin, owned by Mr. 

 Hugh Huntington, South Charleston, Ohio, trotted a mile and repeat, 

 this last fall, over a new and soft track in 2:35^ and 2:35. The per- 



