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land Abdallah. He is too close to the original, both in the Messen- 

 ger and the Bellfounder. His own descendants will let out in high 

 degree the excellences that are shut up in his close in-breeding. As a 

 sire he is a good horse, as is known to all who have ever seen one of' 

 his colts. I have heard it said that almost any horse can produce a 

 poor colt, but I have never heard of a colt of this horse that was not 

 prized as a good one. I have known his produce ever since the first 

 year's foals, and I have never heard a man express an exception to one 

 of them. 



Having owned several of them and having seen very many, and 

 knowing the owners of perhaps the majority of his produce, I can 

 only call to mind the universally high appreciation in which they are 

 held. They are large, of good colors, high in form, perfect in health, 

 and in many cases show very superior trotting qualities. While I 

 can not speak from the record of any that have been trained, I can 

 say that in the Northwest no family of horses will command the 

 prices that can be realized on the produce of Lakeland Abdallah. I 

 know but little of his sons, and am of the impression that they are not 

 as numerous as his daughters, but wherever there is one of the latter 

 the owner holds her for road or breeding purposes, conceiving her to 

 be unequaled for such use. Several have been driven and some have 

 trotted in races, but the highest estimate seems to be placed on them 

 for road and breeding purposes, and a mare by Lakeland Abdallah is 

 regarded as no ordinary breeding stock. His stock, so far as I have 

 any personal acquaintance with them, have not shown the decided 

 leaning toward the Abdallah model, which would have been dis- 

 played had the extra Bellfounder cross been lacking. The even 

 balance between the two bloods seems to have been maintained vpith 

 great uniformity. 



The history of this horse has been like that of many others. 

 His owner did not esteem him as highly as a four and five-year-old 

 as he did after he had sold him, and his first and second year's 

 produce came to the age of two and three years. They established 

 his value, and there was just a sufficient number of them scat- 

 tered about to make the sentiment almost universal in the West that 

 he was a golden sire. He was repurchased at a price about six times 

 the sum realized for him a short period before. 



His owner and breeder is a man of the rarest enthusiasm in horse 

 breeding. With him no pursuit ranks so high or is regarded so 

 ennobling, and he pursues it in its loftiest heights. Ho has the 



