ERIE ABDALLAH. 337 



My horse is proving to be a very superior stock horse, and was also very 

 successful as a trotter the seasons of 1867, '68 and '69 when I bought him and 

 withdrew him from the track. 



I will give you a little account of his campaigns : He was brought to Ohio 

 in the spring of 1867, and was bred to seventy-two mares, and handled 

 through the season and then trotted eight races, winning them all ; trotting 

 his heats from 39 to 44. The next season was bred to eightj^-seven mares, and 

 trotted several 3 in 5 races, two 3-mile-aud-repeat races to wagon, and trotted 

 one heat in 5 : 18. The same season was taken from his owner's stable in 

 Lorain Co., to Mt. Vernon, Knox Co., a distance of eighty miles, left his owner's 

 stable on Monday morning, roaded to Mt. Vernon, arrived there on Tuesday 

 evening, trotted a 8 in 5 race on Wednesday, also one on Thursday, and on 

 Friday a ten mile dash which he won in 31 minutes and 9 seconds ; was timed 

 the last mile and trotted it in 2 minutes and 40 seconds over a heavy half 

 mile track. The season of 1869 he was bred to ninety-six mares, and trotted 

 through the fall, and trotted in 2 : 34 ; since that time he has been kept ex- 

 pressly for a stock horse. 



I showed him at the Northern Ohio Fair of 1870, as a stallion with five of 

 his get — all 2-year-olds — and received the prize, also 2d prize as a stallion 

 for general utility. In 1871 I showed him with five 3-year-olds and a pair of 

 matched geldings from Michigan, 6 years old, and got the prize again. The 

 colts all got first premiums in their classes. The pair got the first premium 

 as matched roadsters, and first and second premium as single roadsters. Erie 

 got the second premium as a roadster stallion. The last season I showed 

 him again with five of his 2 and 3-year-olds, all in harness, and received the 

 prize. I have shown him against three of the sons of Hambletonian — one 

 a horse owned at Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y., one at Dunkirk, N. Y., and Star 

 Hambletonian of Elyria, Ohio — and several of the best thoroughbreds and 

 roadsters we have in Ohio. I have shown him seven times with his colts, and 

 never has he left a show ring without the ribbons. 



I think you will believe I have a horse of great endurance as well as a 

 superior stock horse. 



The following description and pedigree will show the rich breeding 

 of these three stallions: 



Abd-el-Kadek, by Abdallah Roebuck, he by Abdallah Chief, he by Abdallah, 

 he by Mambrino, and he by imported Messenger. 



His dam (the Watson mare by Hickory) came from very noted sources, and 

 was herself distinguished as a, trotter and a mare of great beauty. 



Her sire, Hickory, was a runner and a trotter, and distinguished at both 

 gaits. He was by old Hickory; Ist dam by Mambrino, and 2d dam by im- 

 ported Highlander. 



Old Hickory was by imported Whip, and his dam was Dido by imported 

 Dare Devil. He was a successfnl race-horse, and the sire of race-horses. 



Abd-el-Kad^'8 second dam was an Anglo-Canadian mare, bred in the 

 county of Essex, Ontario. 



