318 HAMBLETONIANS — IN-BRED ABDALLAIIS. 



be wholly effaced, and when opportunity is offered in suitable combi- 

 nations the genius and spirit of Bellfounder will come out in spite 

 of the odds against it. 



By the writers and breeders of this day his success as a stallion 

 will be ascribed to his concentration of the blood of Abdallah, which 

 is not correct. 



This concentration of Messenger and Abdallah blood of itself 

 would have been against his success. He is a successful stallion in 

 spite of that very concentration; but his success is due to the ag'ency 

 of the Duroc blood, which has served as the intermediate — which 

 caused the other two great bloods to fuse in harmony, and to each 

 yield their excellences in the union which the three compose. Had 

 just such a cross as this Shakspeare, or any other good Duroc- Messen- 

 ger cross (not an immediate Duroc cross, remember), but just such 

 as this — intervened between the Charles Kent mare and her own Mes- 

 senger dam, then would Abdallah have found a field from which to 

 raise a son with no alloy, no bars of impediment, and Hambletonian 

 would have shown that quality of universal impressiveness which he 

 notably lacked, and which distinguishes Messenger Duroc, Adminis- 

 trator, Almont, Florida and Mambrino Chief far above himself. 

 Duroc, I repeat, was not a trotter and got no trotters, but as a factor 

 in the American trotting horse the value of the Duroc-Messenger 

 union can not be estimated. 



I have no reports or information relative to the success of thia 

 stallion, in his own immediate vicinity or elsewhere, save that found 

 in the record of 2:30 trotters on the public courses. He is sire of Idol,, 

 a bay mare with a record of 2:23, and 14 heats in 2:30 or better; 

 Versailles Girl, bay mare, record of 2:25^ and 4 heats, and Weston, 

 2:30. His record thus far encourages the belief that he will stand 

 as one of the best and most successful sons of Hambletonian. 



LTSANDER. 



This stallion is entered in the first volume of the Trotting Jiegister 

 simply as a horse; neither his age, color, nanae of his breeder or 

 owner, is given. I suppose his owner and breeder did not think he 

 possessed any or sufficient value to justify inserting the above partic- 

 ulars, for the price that covered the bare mention of his name would 

 have satisfied the entire bill. The fault was not with the very careful 

 compiler, but with the owner. One thing of value, however, is stated, 

 namely, that his dam was by Abdallah Chief; and, while it is not 



