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composition similar to liis own, and in the produce of such, he would 

 display his own superior trotting quality, and the only defect visible 

 would result from the dissimilarity in quality between the two — 

 between his coarseness and the extreme fineness of the thorousrhbred 

 mare. Such I have already shown was the case with his son Alliam- 

 bra, a horse that illustrates both branches of the proposition last 

 suggested. 



I here insert the following historical scrap cut from Dr. Hen's 

 sketch of his horse : 



Mambrino Patchen was foaled in the spring of 1863, in my stable lot in 

 Lexington, Ky., I being in the lot at the time. My faithful old negro, Elijah, 

 even at this distant day, feels proud to tell that he was the first one who ever 

 saw Mambrino Patchen. I always made it a rule to make some one sit up 

 at night with valuable mares to watch their foaling, and old Elijah being 

 reliable and experienced, was the one selected to take charge of such cases^ 

 It was my custom to promise him a present providing he saw a mare foaling, 

 and let me know before she got through, and this he invariably did. At a 

 yearling, I sold Mambrino Patchen for f 1,500, which was a big price to me, 

 under the then existing circumstances, and more than any other trotting colt 

 of that age had ever sold for in this country. The purchaser was Mr. John 

 K. Alexander, of Illinois. As soon as I closed the sale of Mambrino Pilot 

 with C. P. Relf, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, I immediately took the cars 

 resolved to buy back at any cost Mambrino Patchen, and this I succeeded in 

 doing, he being at the time two years old. When he was three years old I 

 allowed him to serve a few mares. It was then war times, and the mares were 

 scattered and some lost sight of, so that as regards number of colts, hi» 

 first season did not appear to be much in his favor. Still, a few of the mares 

 foaled in the vicinity, the balance being as stated, scattered during the war, etc. 

 The price of service, during the first season, was twenty-five dollars to insure. 

 I have kept him for service in the stud from then until the present time, 

 raising tlie price in proportion to the extent to which his colts have shown 

 speed and quality. He is, and has been, for three years, standing at two 

 hundred dollars to insure. 



At three years old I broke and gentled him to harness, and have aimed 

 to drive him seven or eight times every fall since, merely to let him know 

 that he was broke, etc. Last fall, 1875, after an interval of nearly three j^ears, 

 in which he was not harnessed, I hitched him up and drove him about seven 

 times, the third time, still fat and untrained, my son held the first watch on 

 him for one-fourth of a mile, which he jogged in forty seconds. 



Mambrino Patchen is a black horse, full sixteen hands high, the only 

 white shown by him being the grey hind leg — steel grey to the hock — a 

 certilicate granted by old Mambrino Chief to a large part of his 

 descendants, more particularly his sons, and which is also worn by his 

 grandsons, not a few — a badge of honor, and a certificate of member- 



