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effect of the additional Messenger strains, in a slight reduction of the 

 Tear leverage, but they yet retain a great similarity to the progeny of 

 Ericsson. He died in the winter of 1871 and 1872, before his produce 

 and merits as a sire were known, and before correct ideas of the real 

 composition of the family and blood of Mambrino Chief prevailed to 

 any great extent, hence his success in the stud was thereby limited. 

 Had he lived until this time, it is my opinion that he would have 

 stood as the first stallion of the family, and that in such cases as he 

 could have secured mares by Almont, Administrator, Mambrino 

 Patchen, and other sons of Mambrino Chief, and thus united with other 

 Duroc strains, he would have exhibited a degree of excellence not 

 possessed by any son of the great sire. Mrs. Caudle had no element 

 of Duroc blood in her composition, and it constituted her only defi- 

 -ciency. A remote cross of that blood would have made her a breed- 

 ing mare of marked superiority. 



Clark Chief has to his credit for the short period that he survived, 

 Woodford Chief, at five years old with a record of 2:22^, and ten 

 heats in 2:30 or better; .John E., 2:28f ; Governor, 2:30; and Lady 

 Prewett, 2:30. He is also the sire of the stallion Kentucky Prince, 

 lately owned by Mr. A. B. Darling, and recently sold to Charles 

 Backman of the Stony Ford Stud. His dam is by Morgan^ Eagle, 

 a very good combination of blood, but would have been better if the 

 order of breeding had been reversed — the Morgan blood in the sire, 

 and that of Mambrino Chief in the dam. He will doubtless be a 

 successful breeder. He is regarded as a horse of good form, and has 

 shown good qualities of gait and speed. Woodford Chief is recently 



dead. 



Mcdonald's mambrusto. 



This horse was from Big Nora, by Downing's Bay Messenger, 

 •grandam Mrs. Caudle. His dam being full sister to Little Nora, 

 the dam of Clark Chief, he would of course resemble that horse very 

 much; but full brothers are not exactly alike. How far these two 

 differ it is impossible to determine. I have only met with two of his 

 descendants. They each gave testimony to the peculiar anatomy 

 inherited from Mrs. Caudle. One of these was a brown mare by 

 McDonald's Mambrino. She had a thigh 24 inches, and was 41 inches 

 in length from hip to hock. 



Brownwood, a son of Blackwood, now owned at Beloit, Wiscon- 

 :sin, dam by McDonald's Mambrino, is 41 inches from hip to hock, 

 ■while his sire, Blackwood, is only 39 inches. 



