CHAPTER XIY. 



.HA MBLETONIANS — IN-BRED ABDALLAHS. 



LAKELAND ABDALLAH. 



In my first chapter, while treating of the subject of in-breeding, I 

 expressed the opinion that, in general, no half-brothers and sisters 

 should be mated — that no daughter of Abdallah should be sent to 

 Hambletonian. 



The real excellence of the two stallions for our immediate consid- 

 eration, will be almost taken as sufficient to controvert the correctness 

 of the position there assumed. Their superiority as individuals and as 

 sires must be admitted, while at the same time it does not clearly ap- 

 pear but that they would have each been greater and more successful 

 stallions had they been one remove further from Abdallah, as in the 

 case of the third stallion, to be considered in this chapter. Besides 

 this, the first two stallions have in the blood of their dams a combi- 

 nation of the precise elements already indicated in this work, as the 

 best yet discovered to unite with, mould and control the Abdallah 

 blood, in the composition of our American roadster — the blood of 

 Bellfounder in one and that of Duroc in the other — and the greatness 

 of the third named stallion lies in the two-fold fact that the blood of 

 Abdallah was distant the one proper remove, and in union with the 

 blood of Duroc in the best form that could have been selected. Each 

 of the three affords a subject worthy of our careful study. 



Lakeland Abdallah was foaled in 1865, and was by Hamble- 

 tonian; first dam Enchantress, by Abdallah; second dam by imp. 

 Bellfounder, as given, although this latter part of the i)edigree has 

 of late been questioned on grounds that do not appear to me 

 admissible. This horse was bred by Mr. Charles S. Dole, of Chicago. 

 Having reached a certain conclusion with regard to the lines of blood 

 he wanted in a stallion, he set out to breed one. 



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