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with which he would have yielded the richest results. This mare was 

 a grey mare, Juliet, by Pilot Jr., her dam by Webster, a thorough- 

 bred son of Medoc, and her grandam by Whip. 



Pilot Jr., as will be shown more fully in Chapter XXV, was by 

 Pilot the Pacer, from a mare with t-svo thoroughbred crosses. Medoc 

 was a son of American Eclipse — another Duroc-Messenger — and all 

 Medoc mares have been good breeders of trotters. No blood in the 

 dam of a trotter or trotting stallion has yet equaled the Duroc-Mes- 

 senger when in proper relation. This should be accepted as the first 

 maxim in the science of American breeding, and one of wide appli- 

 cation and supported by overwhelming proofs. 



Juliet produced her great son when she was four years old, as did 

 also the dam of Volunteer. Her own breeding made her a superior 

 mare. Her blood composition was one that would afford consanguin- 

 ity for that of Mambrino Chief, and at the same time the elements of 

 racing blood it contained were completely neutralized by the road 

 and trotting elements of Pilot and the various part-bred roadsters 

 through which she was descended. The success of Mambrino Pilot 

 as a stallion affords further proof that both he and Mambrino Chief 

 required a certain degree of consanguinity in the mares they received 

 in order that their own qualities should properly be reproduced. His 

 great son, MAiiBRiNO Gift, of all others the nearest like himself, was 

 from the noted mare Water Witch, by Pilot Jr., her dam by a son of 

 St. Lawrence, and grandam a highly bred mare by Oliver, a son of 

 Wagner. 



Mambrino Gift was one of the great trotting stallions, and competed 

 for the championship with Smuggler, Thomas .Jefferson, Phil Sheridan, 

 H. W. Genet, and other great stallions. He had a record of 2:20^ 

 and seventeen heats in 2:30 or better. He made in one race 2:21, 

 2:20, 2:23, which at that time were the three fastest heats ever made 

 by a stallion. 



Mambrino Gift died in 1877, a great loss to his owners and the 

 breeding interest. As he was a stallion of great value as a breeder, 

 and his produce may yet occupy conspicuous positions, I append 

 hereto the following notice, published in the Live-Stock Journal soon, 

 after his death : 



Mambrino Gift, the first stallion that ever trotted in 2 :20, and who, for 

 several years, divided the honors with Smuggler, for best stallion record, died 

 Sept. 1st, of spasmodic colic. He was a beautiful liorse, full 16 liands in 

 height, rangy and stylish, with powerful quarters, but rather light in tlie girth 

 and flank. In color he was of the darkest, richest cliestnut, witliout a white 



