450 DESCENDANTS OF MAMBRINO CHIEF. 



Bacchante Mambrino, was a grey mare with a long ear and calf- 

 knees. Her dam was the mare Grey Bacchante by Downing's Bay 

 Messenger, one of the early trotters of Kentucky, full sister of Tom 

 Redd. This mare has produced the stallion Lucknow, and the mares 

 Abby Bacchante and Jennie Hamilton, all by Lakeland Abdallah. Jen- 

 nie Hamilton is owned by Stephen Bull, Esq., of Racine, Wisconsin, 

 and is dam of a young son of Swigert, and Abby Bacchante is dam of 

 Euripides and a filly, Rhody Bacchante by Governor Sprague, a highly 

 prized family. 



The stallion Joe Hooker had a sister, which should have left some 

 good stock, if properly mated. The stallion Ericsson also had a sister 

 called Psyche, but she was the most undesirable great brute I ever 

 saw. I believe, however, she has been mated with Enfield, the son 

 of Hambletonian and Julia McChree, but I am not advised as to the 

 results. 



Many thoroughbred mares were sent to Mambrino Chief, but they 

 were not the best suited to his composition. Lady Montague was 

 from such a mare. Her dam was Bellamira, by imported Monarch;, 

 2d dam, Kitty Heath, by American Eclipse — a long pedigree, twelve 

 generations of racing blood in length. She is the dam of the stallion 

 Bismarck, by Hambletonian, and of another called Wissahickon, by 

 Wm. Welch. The mare is not what I would select either as a good 

 brood mare or as a good representative of the family of Mambrino 

 Chief. I have seen her, but would prefer even the blind daughter of 

 the dun mare from Ohio. 



Tramp is another daughter of Mambrino Chief that is, perhaps, a 

 valuable one, as well as many others that have not become the dams 

 of distinguished produce from the want of suitable mating. 



The wide dissemination of the blood of Mambrino Chief through 

 the daughters, while the name will disappear, will yet leave his- 

 impress on the American trotter to an extent, perhaps, not surpassed 

 or even equaled by that of any stallion that has ever lived. 



His service as a stallion only covered a period of eight years, of 

 which anything is particularly known. Hambletonian served twenty- 

 four years, and produced, perhaps, six hundred daughters, yet how 

 rarely is the name of a Hambletonian given as the dam of a great 

 trotter or stallion. Which of the two great sires will have the more 

 numerous descendants twenty-five years hence? 



