440 DESCENDANTS OF MAMBRINO CHIEF. 



the pace. She tvouIcI lead the horses in their playful frolics in the pasture' 

 she pacing and the others running. She produced the Sir William mare, the 

 grandam of Lady Thorn, and Mambrino Patchen. 



Lady Thorn's Grandam. — This wa's a sorrel mare, with a blaze face, and 

 four white legs; was 153^ hands high, and also, like her dam, a natural pacer. 

 ■She was used by the father of Mr. Levi Rodes as a first-class and sure-footed 

 saddle mare ; perfect, sound and long-lived. She looked like a thoroughbred, 

 and was by a son of Sir William. The foregoing is all that Mr. Rodes can 

 remember of what his father said about the breeding of this mare. Slie 

 produced the dam of Lady Thorn, and Mambrino Patchen; also a chest- 

 nut mare by Post Boy. 



The dam of Lady Thorn was raised and bred by William Rodes, of Fayette 

 ■county, Ky. The mare to which attention is now directed, was a blood-bay, 

 15}^ hands high, with all the best characteristics of the thoroughbred about 

 her, showing high quality at all points. Her legs and feet were like polished 

 steel, she was beautifully proportioned and balanced in her form — no mixture 

 of good and bad, large and small points, but as stated, any one part admira- 

 bly answering to the co-related part throughout. Eyes large and perfect; 

 carriage elegant, with extra tail. Her regular trot seemed as though it could 

 not be improved, so extraordinarily regular and machine-like were the move- 

 ments. Stride elastic, level> open ; and her bottom of the best. 



The dam of Lady Thorn produced several other foals; Lady Thorn 

 was her fourth, her seventh was the stallion Kentucky Clay, by 

 Strader's Cassius M. Clay Jr., and her eighth and last which survived, 

 was Mambrino Patchen, the brother of Lady Thorn. The old mare, 

 afterward in foal to Mambrino Pilot, was sold to Charles S. Dole, 

 Esq., and removed to Chicago, and Mr. Dole having left her with a 

 person who neglected her, she died in a lot north of the city, and 

 not far from the present site of Ravenswood; she died at her foaling 

 time, and the foal was also lost. Dr. Herr further says: 



HISTORY AND BREEDING OF LADY THORN. 



Mr. Levi T. Rodes, who, in 1855 and previously, owned the dam of Lady 

 Thorn, bred her to Mambrino Chief, and Ihe produce in 1856 was Lady Thorn. 

 After she was a year old past, Mr. Levi T. Rodes broke her to sulky, and this 

 gentleman informs me that she was naturally kind, and showed no disposition 

 to kick or be vicious in any way. When she was two years old, Mr. Rodes 

 sold her to Mr. Henry Dunlap — price, |300, and two boxes of plantation 

 cigars. Both the parlies to this transaction were of Fayette county, Ky. Mr. 

 Dunlap drove her single and double the summer and fall she was two years 

 old; and did so with and without blinds, at all hours of the night. Mr. 

 Dunlap was fond of playing billiards, and although I was not keeping a 

 public stable, he insisted on putting up his driving horses with me, iny place 

 being convenient to where he used to amuse himself, and from which it was 

 not unusual for him to start for home as late as 12 or 1 o'clock in the night — 



