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stated that the sire of such dam was Roe's Abdallah Chief, I will 

 hope and even assume that such was the case, as this would give me 

 a mare to my liking, as the dam of a good sire from Hambletonian. 

 The blood of Abdallah is presented in the exact form in which I 

 should prescribe it, namely, in the Duroc-Messenger compound — the 

 dam of Abdallah Chief being by Phillips, he by Duroc, and his dam 

 by Messenger, the second dam of Abdallah Chief being further by 

 Decatur, and his dam by American Eclipse, son of Duroc, dam by 

 Messenger — and if there was some more Messenger and not much 

 Duroc in the background, still better; but accepting it as it is, or 

 rather as I suppose it to be, this stallion asserts a value which his 

 breeder and owner did not attribute to him in having produced the 

 trotter Lysander Boy, that in a single season came before the public 

 Unheralded and unannounced, and trotted 16 heats in 2:30 or better, 

 and marked a record of 2:23 — all in his first year — and as his record 

 is a good one and the breeding of his sire suits me, I will forgive his 

 owner and breeder the oversight displayed in not placing hiTn prop- 

 erly before the public. 



The lesson drawn from the success of these stallions will be of 

 value in our several breeding plans of the future. 



