448 DESCENDANTS OF MAMBRINO CHIEF. 



Indiana is a black mare, foaled in 1850; her dam is given as by 

 Bertrand. She has been a superior breeder. It is to be noticed that 

 "the greatest success either for trotting or breeding purposes among 

 the daughters of Mambrino Chief, comes from the produce of mares 

 that had only one or two crosses of racing blood. Indiana has borne 

 one son, Pilot Mambrino, by Pilot J)'., a good horse, recently owned 

 at Chicago. She has also borne the brown stallion Indianapolis, by 

 Tattler, the son of Pilot Jr. Indianapolis has trotted a mile in 2:25^. 



Fayette Belle was a large, dark bay or brown mare. Her dam was 

 T'oung Flaxy, by Telegraph, a Kentucky horse, whose blood is not 

 known to me. She was the dam of Mambrino Bertie, the fast young 

 son of Mambrino Patchen, owned by Robert Bonner. She has in 

 later years been owned by Harrison Durkie, of New York, and has 

 been breeding to Blackwood. She was a very superior mare, and has 

 left some valuable stock. 



The DAM OF Blackwood was from a dun mare that came from 

 Ohio, blood unknown. She was blind, and not regarded as a desira- 

 ble mare. Being in foal to Norman, Mr. Alexander succeeded in 

 •disposing of her for a trifle, but the produce was a $30,000 stallion, of 

 "which an account is given in the next chapter. 



Young Portia — a brown mare, foaled in 1856. Her dam was Portia, 

 ■by Roebuck, second dam by Whip, This mare stands in the front 

 rank of all the daughters of Mambrino Chief. She has produced 

 two stallions that are sufficient to give fame to a family. Her son 

 Voltaire, foaled in 1868, now stands with a record of 2:21:^, and a 

 ■winner of the Breeders' stake at Hartford, Conn., after a career of 

 success unsurpassed in our turf history. 



She also, in 1870, produced the chestnut stallion Portion, by the 

 thoroughbred stallion Planet, which has shown a capacity for trotting 

 excelled by few sons of a thoroughbred. He is now owned in Min- 

 nesota, and his career will be watched with much interest. Planet 

 was a very superior stallion, by Revenue, a son of imported Trustee, 

 and the superiority of this son of Young Portia will be often cited as 

 proof of the trotting qualities of the Trustee family. If he attains 

 to an eminence equal to that already achieved by Voltaire, the son of 

 Tattler, it may be worth while to discuss the question of fitness or 

 unfitness of Planet or the Trustees for trotting puqioses. The merits 

 •of Young Portia, the daughter of Mambrino Chief, are not likely to 

 he lost sight of in either case. 



The DAM OF Alue West was from a mare by Downing's Bay 



