MRS. caudle's family. 4:59 



pedigree thoroughbred, or mainly so. He is owned by Capt. M. M. 

 Clay, of Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, and has to his credit 

 Coaster, with record of 2:263-. Caliban has shown good trotting 

 quality himself. 



Mambrino Pilot has another son, Mambrino Messenger, that has- 

 to his credit Lewinski, with record of 2:25^^, and eighteen heats in 

 2:30. I am not able to give further particulars relating to this son. 



ERICSSON, CLARK CHIEF AND MCDONALD's MAMBRINO. 



Entitled to a front rank and in some respects the highest consider- 

 ation among the sons of Mambrino Chief, should stand Ericsson the 

 son, and Clark Chief the grandson of the mare Mrs. Caudle, whose 

 pedigree can not be given, but whose blood qualities are clearly shown 

 in the produce of these two great stallions. Whatever may have 

 been her origin, she lacked only one element to make her the best 

 mare ever sent to the old Chief, and one of the greatest this country 

 has ever known. 



The ascertained facts regarding her histoiy are well known to a few 

 persons, but they are so short of range as to leave us without any 

 specific light regarding her blood qualities except as they are dis- 

 closed in her descendants. 



The mare was well known to Mr. Ambrose Stevens and many of 

 the older residents in and about New York. She was purchased in 

 that city about the year 1840 and sent to Georgia. She was a well 

 known and superior road mare, and was considered equal to 2:40 and 

 better. After passing the hands of several parties at Savannah and 

 Macon, Georgia, she was sent to Kentucky to be bred to a trotting 

 stallion. 



She was afterward the property of Mr. Enoch Lewis, well known 

 in the vicinity of Lexington, and died there after raising several foals, 

 one of which was called Little Nora, another was called Big Nora, 

 both by Downing's Bay Messenger. Little Nora became the dam of 

 Clark Chief, and Big Nora became the dam of McDonald's Mambrino. 

 She also raised a son and a daughter by Mambrino Chief — Ericsson 

 and the big mare called Nocomis, and afterward Psyche, foaled in 

 1861. 



Ericsson, the son of Mrs. Caudle and Mambrino Chief, was foaled in 

 1856, and was a very large horse, the largest trotting sire ever seen in 

 this country. He was an overgrown prodigy. His head, while it was 

 not really one of homely form, was the longest and biggest head I 



