342 ABDALLAHS. 



The Abdallah blood is a truly great one, but the history of our 

 trotting turf has shown so much success resulting from the addition 

 of both tlie Bellfounder and the Duroc-Messenger strains, that we 

 are not without abundant light for our guidance in the selection of a 

 rich field for so much of the concentrated blood of the king of 

 trotting stallions. 



From such sires as Jupiter Abdallah, Flatbush Abdallah and Tom 

 Moore, and mares of the Harry Clay, Hambletonian or Mambrino 

 Chief families, we should gather yet many Bodines, St. Juliens, 

 Lady Thorns, AUie Wests, and Thorndales, kings and princes of 

 the trottino; turf. 



I may in this connection be excused for again referring to my colt 

 Euripides. It will be seen that he is a Duroc-Messenger of the 

 strongest type. He has probably four Duroc crosses. He has three 

 crosses of Abdallah, and more crosses of Messenger than almost any 

 stallion in the land; but these crosses are interwoven so completely 

 and the changes from one type to another made so gradually, that 

 he affords one of the finest illustrations anywhere to be found, of 

 the effect of frequently, yet thus by gradual approaches, crossing 

 the Duroc and the Messenger bloods. He receives from his dam 

 two crosses of Bellfounder, but in a remote form and coming through 

 Lakeland Abdallah, a strong Abdallah composition, yet his length 

 from hip to hock already surpasses any member of his family, his 

 sire or dam. He is now over 40 inches in that line, and will probably 

 reach the full measure of 41 inches. He will be full sixteen hands 

 high, but his hock has the appearance of being nearer to the ground 

 than any I have ever seen in a horse of equal size. His hock, more- 

 over, has the best support and extends downward so far, and he 

 shows a rear cannon-bone so short, as to attract the observation of 

 any one with a practiced eye. His composition, so thoroughly yet 

 so gradually inwrought with the elements of Duroc and Messenger, 

 and Avith what Bellfounder came to him through Lakeland Abdallah, 

 renders him one of the most symmetrical and highly formed young 

 stallions I have ever seen. Such is the advanced stage in breeding 

 yet open to the Americari breeder from the opportunities afforded in 

 the proper union of the blood of our great trotting families of the 

 present day. 



