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Messenger, an exceedingly well bred mare. If her fame went no 

 further than the distinction of having produced AUie West, it would 

 "be enough; for no greater stallion was ever bred in the State of 



Kentucky. 



The DAM OF Almont was from a mare by Pilot Jr., and the second 

 dam was a highly bred mare. Her son has attained unto so great an 

 eminence that her fame seems to have disappeared in the lustre of 

 his greatness. No particulars seem to have been given out with re- 

 gard to her own merits or aliility. Almont has become such a 

 famous horse that we lose sight of the fact that he derived anything 

 from a daughter of Mambrino Chief. 



The same may be said of the dam of Thorndale. She was 

 also an exceedingly well bred mare. Her dam was one of those 

 highly but part bred mares by Saxe Weimar, a thoroughbred — 

 just the quantum of high breeding to make the dam of a trotter. She 

 would have been an excellent mare for any cross, but especially for 

 such as was furnished in Alexander's Abdallah. The champion of 

 1877, in his grand and well-balanced form, his high trotting quality, 

 and immense bottom and game in a race, when he scored twenty-six 

 times against a formidable combination, attests the superiority of both 

 his own great sire, and the excellence of a daughter of Mambrino 

 Chief. 



The DAM OF Belmoxt was from a daughter of Ohio Bellfounder. 

 She was certainly a superior mare, and the quality of her blood is 

 shown in the fine trotting qualities of the sons and daughters of Bel- 

 mont- — one of the strong characters of the trotting turf. 



The DAM OF Administrator was produced by Mambrino Chief 

 while in the State of New York. Her own merits are sufficiently 

 shown in the greatness of the great Duroc Messenger, now at the 

 head of the list of great stallions. 



And if the list extended no further, what a fame to follow one 

 name, that his daughters were the respective dams of such a list of 

 great stallions as Adminstrator, Almont, Thorndale, Voltaire, Belmont, 

 Blackwood, Swigert, Woodburn Pilot, Allie West, Portion, Piedmont, 

 Pilot Mambrino, Indianapolis, Almont Chief, Almont Eagle, and Ab- 

 dallah Pilot. When has America in any other stallion shoAvn such a 

 list of maternal renown? 



In addition to the foregoing list he left many daughters that were 

 esteemed valuable and which have left valuable female descendants, 

 the dams of many younger but very excellent animals. 



