MAMBUINO PAYMASTER. 417 



or 1832. Mr. Georp^o Tabor, who had char<re of Manil)rino Pay- 

 master the year he produced Maiiihriiio (Jhief, says that it was when 

 the former was twenty-two years ohl. 



Maml)riii() Paymaster was by Mambrino, son of imported Messen- 

 ger, and Mambrino died on the farm of Mr. Arnohl. The reports do 

 not ag;ree as to tlie dates of foalin<i,- o[ either Mambrino Payiiiast(M- or 

 Mambrino Chief. The dam of the former has been generally 

 supposed to have been a mare by import(ul Paymaster, but this is 

 controverted and may l)e regarded as entin^ly unautlumtic. Mam- 

 brino Paymaster was a large; horse, lO.j hands high, and produced 

 good and large stock of much style and substatuie, but non<^ of th(Mn 

 noted for trotting action or speed, except the produce of tin; one 

 mare that gave us Mambrino Chief. 



It can not ]u\ (hsfinitely assumed that Maml)rino Paymaster liad not 

 some qualihcations for a trotting sire, because lie was not a trotter 

 himself, and produced none from any other mare than the dam of 

 Maml)rino Chief. He was a son of Mambrino, a thoroughbred, and a 

 son of Messtmger. H(i had great trotting quality, but it was luild in 

 union with other qualities that were perhaps ])aramount. j^'roin a 

 real trotting mare Mambrino would produce a trotter or a trotting 

 sin;; but from a racing or thoroughbred mare, or one that had no 

 trotting (juality, he. would produce a horse that, Wkc. himself, would 

 not show out his trotting quality, although he might possess it in a 

 latent or inideinonstrative way. Such, perhaps, was Mambrino Pay- 

 master, and wluMi he was mated with a mare or roadst(^r — of royal 

 trotting blood — then cann; a gr(!at trotter and a powerfully impressive 

 trotting stalli(jn. 



Much has been said and written about the breeding of the dam of 

 Mambrino Chief, and some efforts were made to learn her breeding, but 

 all in vain. The nsason of tlu; failure is ol)vious to my mind — the inqui- 

 ries were made of those who possessed no knowledge; and with the fail- 

 ure the effort ended. The princij)al and only trustworthy information 

 that was made public concerning her, prcivious to my own investiga- 

 tions, was secured through the endeavf)rs of Edwin Thorne, Esq., the 

 well-known gentleman above referred to, and I can but express the 

 opinion that, if he had followed up the trail, tin; problem would much 

 sooner have been solved. I extract the following from the statements 

 made by that gentleman: 



There has l)een so much written in relation to the clam of Mani1)rino Chief, 

 tending to bewilder rather than enlighten the practical breeder, that I have, 



