MAMBRINO PATCHElSr. 451 



SONS OF MAMBRINO CHIEF. 



In presenting- the sons of this great sire, it will aid us in reaching 

 a correct understanding of the breeding- qualities of each to recur 

 to the blood qualities of the Chief. He was a Duroc- Messenger. 

 His sire was a grandson of Messenger, whose dam was a highly bred 

 mare, perhaps tracing throug-h near thoroughbred lines. His dam 

 was a mare strong- in Duroc and Messenger blood. As a sire he 

 would display his consanguinity toward lines of similar blood. 

 Those possessing combinations similar to his own would call out the 

 high trotting and breeding qualities which he possessed in the 

 most eminent degree. He was not a thoroughbred horse, although 

 he had much of the blood qualities of such, and was only recently 

 •descended from such in all his lines. He had some road elements 

 and these were of a very positive and controlling character. He 

 would be an impressive sire with thoroughbred mares, especially if 

 their blood composition was similar to his own, and he would display 

 his grandest qualities and his greatest superiority with part bred 

 but highly bred mares whose blood composition was similar to his 

 own. He met just such a mare ill the dam of his greatest daughter 

 and his most distinguished son 



MAMBRINO PATCHEN. 



We are justified in recurring to her breeding. She was a daughter 

 of Gano, and Gano would have been exactly such an animal in blood 

 •composition as the dam of Mambrino Chief, had he come from a 

 common or part bred road mare. His sire was by Duroc, from a 

 daughter of Messenger, and such precisely was the sire of the mare 

 that bore Mambrino Chief. The second dam of Mambrino Patchen 

 was a part bred mare, by a highly bred or thoroughbred horse. She 

 was a pacer, but that fact does not signify as much as many now 

 assume. She would have been quite as good, had she been a road 

 mare of trotting rather than pacing gait. Mambrino Chief, in the 

 dam of Lady Thorn and Mambrino Patchen, found a mare bred almost 

 exactly like his own dam, and of course much like himself. Hence, 

 he would reproduce his own great qualities in great force and posi- 

 tiveness, and as there was superadded in the composition of this 

 mare, a high degree of quality, or what we call blood, so the produce 

 would be Mambrino Chief over again, but on a higher and more 

 blood-like basis. Moreover, Mambrino Chief, as I have said, would 

 show a strong impress with thoroughbred mares that had a blood 



