458 DESCENDANTS OF MAMBRIIJO CHIEF. 



bair, as we remember him. He was bred by E. P. Kinkead, of "Woodfcml 

 county, Ky., got by Relf's Mambrino Pilot, out of a mare by Pilot Jr.. 2d 

 dam by Kinkead's St. Lawrence, 3d dam said to be a thoroughbred, but her 

 pedigree has been lost. He was foaled in 18GG, and commenced his txottiag 

 lessons when only two years old, under the tutelage of Dr. Herr. Messrs. 

 Nye & Foster, of Flint, Mich., purchased him in 1873; and during that season 

 he started in eight races — seven of which he won — and made a record of 

 2:2614^. But it was in his next season that he so greatly distinguished him- 

 self After having served twenty-five mares he was put in training; and in 

 the Michigan Circuit, early in the campaign, he did battle with St. James, 

 Huntress, and the then invincible Red Cloud, at Jackson and Saginaw. July 

 30th, he trotted at Cleveland, winning the third heat, but losing the race to 

 Fred Hooper. On the following week he was engaged in the great stallion 

 race, for a purse of $10,000, in which he contended with Smuggler, Thomas 

 Jefferson, Joe Brown, and Pilot Temple. This race was graphically described 

 in the Journal of Sept., 1874, and remains to this day the most exciting stal- 

 lion race ever trotted. The first two heats were won by Smuggler, in 2:23^, 

 3:20^; the next by Mambrino Gift, in 3:33i4, and the remaining three by 

 Thos. Jeflerson, in 2 -.28}^, 2 :2G>^, 2 -.2814. It was a race " for blood," and was 

 fought between Thos. Jefferson and Gift to the very end of the last heat. On 

 the week following, at Rochester, he trotted his greatest race, in .which he beat 

 Tanner Boy, Joe Brown, Joker, Fred Hooper and Barney Kelly, in three 

 straight heats, in 2 :21, 2 -.20, 2 :23, the fastest time ever made by a stallion up 

 to that date, and which has since been beaten by two stallions only, and one 

 of them a son of the same sire. Later, in the same campaign, he contended 

 for the championship in the stallion race at Mystic Park, but got no better 

 than fifth place. It was claimed that he had been drugged prior to the race; 

 but, however that may be, he was clearly "off"," and could not trot on that 

 day. The race was won by Smuggler, in 2 :23, 2 :33, 2 :20, which placed him 

 equal to Gift in the record; and this figure, 2:20, continued to be the best 

 stallion record until, at Cleveland, in 1876, it was lowered by Smuggler to 

 2 :163^, and five weeks later, at Hartford, to 2 :153^, the present best stallion 

 record. 



The most successful trotter that has appeared on our trotting courses 

 is the chesnut stallion, Hannis. I have not the means of giving the 

 pedigree of his dam. He is by Mambrino Pilot, and was kept in the 

 dark until he was about nine years old. During his first season he 

 made a record of 2:19f, and twenty-three heats in 2:30 or better. He 

 is a small horse. Mambrino Pilot has also to his credit Morning, with 

 record and four heats in 2:30. 



His family are generally large and powerful horses, not very fine 

 and rather slender about the waist — a mark that mars their otherwise 

 great excellence. 



He is the sire of CALinAN, a good stallion of excellent form and 

 quality. His dam was by Strader's Cassius M. Clay, residue of the 



