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and with such a display of superiority, as to stamp him one of the 

 most remarkable stallions this country has ever seen. For highly 

 bred produce, those that trot with smooth easy gait, and show early 

 ■excellence, making time between 2:40 and three minutes, he surpasses 

 any stallion this country has ever produced. He is without a rival or 

 a peer in the limits indicated. He has not produced those with 

 records as fast as some others, but the great number he has shown 

 as possessing very high quality and within the range of speed indi- 

 cated, surpasses any stallion we have yet seen. 



But it must not be inferred from this, that Marabrino Patchen 

 stops here, by any means. He will yet show a formidable list coming 

 from mares in which the trotting forces were reinforced, and from 

 such he will yet show a roll that will give him a name and place 

 among the great trotting stallions of this country. Let me be clearly 

 understood, when I say that in his own composition he has all the. 

 Dionied or racinsf elements that are admissible in a trottina: familv, and 

 that he will add no lustre to his name in any case where these are rein- 

 forced, but that he has such elements of a great trotting stallion as will 

 •enable him to take a rank among the highest, whenever he can reach a 

 <jlass of mares in which the true trotting blood of Messenger is present- 

 ed. He has already a splendid list. Although a very large number of 

 his best bred colts are young, and only ready to enter appearance on 

 the public courses, he has to his credit Mambrino Kate, dam by 

 State of Maine, record of 2:244, and six heats in. 2:30 or better; The 

 Jewess, 2:26, and nine heats in 2:30 or better; Mambrino Boy, dam 

 by Strader's C M. Clay Jr., 2:26.j, and three heats; Lady Stout, dam 

 "by Mark Time, highly bred in raping blood, 2:29, when three years 

 old; and George, 2:29f. 



One of the traits of kinship to Lady Thorn, shown by all the 

 progeny of Mambrino Patchen, is their ability to hold out in a race. 

 ■George won a seventh heat in 2:32; Glendale, a grandson, trotted a 

 sixth heat in the mud in 2:32; Girl E. Queen, as a three year old, in 

 fourth heat, trotted in 2:33^. 



I append a list cut from a sheet prepared by the owner of a son of 

 this stallion, which I assume to be substantialh' correct, and which 

 will show that Mambrino Patchen has a progeny which already testify 

 to his merits as a sire; and will further give abvmdant proof that the 

 ;great power of Mambrino Chief in imparting the trotting quality is 

 also being transmitted by Mambrino Patchen to his own sons. 



