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and looked at the latter after Mr. Liviugston parted with him, with a view of 

 purchasing him. The colt by Sir Andrew was a fine-looking fellow. Mr, 

 David S. Tallman bought him when four years old, because he had so high an 

 opinion of his dam. Pie broke him, and sold him after breaking him for abou* 

 double what he gave for him. He was taken to White Plains, Westchester Co., 

 in this State, where he died in the course of a month, before he was sufficiently 

 broken to develop any speed, if he had any in him. He was, however, not 

 promising ; neither was Goliah at his age — Mr. Haight sold him for a cart- 

 horse. 



All the foregoing, relating to the mare, has been obtained from my neighbors 

 residing within a radius of five miles, and can be relied upon as being all that 

 is known of the pedigree and general characteristics of the old brown mare, 

 immortalized by her son Mambrino Chief. 



Let her breeding be what it may, the fact that she produced Goliah, Mam- 

 brino Chief, and the Livingston horse, all fast trotters, coupled with the fact 

 that the only one of the trio kept entire was able to transmit, to a remarkable 

 degree, his wonderful qualities, is evidence to my mind that she was much 



more than an ordinary mare. 



Edwin Thorne. 

 Thorndale, Duchess Co., N. Y. 



P. S. — As it has been suggested that some of the good qualities of Mambrino 

 Chief may have come from the Paymaster mare, the dam of Mambrino 

 Paymaster, I may, in this connection, state, that if she had any Paymaster 

 blood in her it was not known. Mambrino Paymaster was bred by my neighbor, 

 the late Azariah Arnold. In the summer of 1870 I called upon him with a 

 friend, to learn what we could about Mambrino and Mambrino Paymaster. 

 Mambrino died and was buried on his farm. In relation to Mambrino Pay- 

 master, he said he was sired by Mambrino. His dam was a good-looking, 

 three-year-old bay mare he bought of a man at Hyde Park, who said she was 

 sired by a horse that stood at Fishkill. He did not know an.ything about her 

 breeding. She looked so much like the Paymaster stock that he (Mr. A.) called 

 her a Paymaster mare, and named her colt Mambrino Paymaster. 



And to which the following was added by the same gentleman: 



Mr. Eldridge informs me that I reported my interview witii him correctly, 

 but there was one thing that did not occur to him at the time, but that has 

 come to him since, and that was that Daniel B. told him when he bought the 

 mare that she could trot a mile with two men in a wagon in four minutes. 



Mr. Tlieodore Weeks tells me that he once rode behind the mare with Mr. 

 Eldridge's son, in a square box lumber wagon, faster than he ever rode before 

 or since. He thought she was a trotter. 



Through the aid of Col. George F. Stevens, of Poughkeepsie, I 

 received the following letter, bearing on the subject: 



At the request of Col. Stevens, I write this, giving you all I know of Mam- 

 brino Paymaster and his descendants. I knew Mambrino Chief from the day 

 Jie was foaled until he left the State, also his dam. The tendency to grey legs 



