462 DESCENDANTS OF MAMBRINO CHIEF. 



In 1876 I saw in the possession of Col. R. Strader, at Lexington, av 

 brown colt, three years old, by Ericsson, dam by Pilot .Jr. His thigb 

 was 24^, and he was 41^ inches from hip to hock. A bay gelding at 

 the same place, then four years old, by Ericsson, was 41 and 24. 



Hattie Fitch, a grey mare, owned by Gen. Withers, by Williams*' 

 Mambrino, a son of Ericsson, was 24 inches in length of thigh, and 41 

 inches from hip to hock. This measure of 41 inches ran through the 

 descendants of Mrs. Caudle with great uniformity. 



This peculiarity marks all the descendants of Mrs. Caudle, and it 

 constitutes a fact worthy of careful consideration. I find that the 

 stock has been advancing in popular estimate in Kentucky for the 

 past four years. I have no doubt that her impress will be seen for a 

 long time in the future trotters bred from the Kentucky stock of the 

 present day. 



To recur a^ain to the mare Mrs. Caudle. I am informed bv one 

 who knew her well that she had much of the form of the trotting 

 mare Flora Belle, by Uwharie; had long and powerful quarters, but a 

 head and other points that indicated the strongest concentration of 

 the blood and qualities of Messenger. She was reported to have 

 come from Duchess county, New York. She had strong elements of 

 Messenger in her composition, and if she came from Duchess county,. 

 it is not improbable that she was a daughter of imported Bellfounder^ 

 His stay in Duchess county would comport as to date with the proba- 

 ble period of her origin. Still further, she may have descended from 

 some of those long and powerful quartered Canadians, crossed on the 

 Messenger mares, that were numerous in the eastern part of the State 

 of New York, from Long Island to the St. Lawrence river. The 

 blood qualities above indicated were those which her descendants dis- 

 play, and which her own history renders probable. This length of 41 

 inches from hip to hock in her descendants, so much like the 41 of 

 Hambletonian, and the trotters descended from Harry Clay mares,, 

 and so rarely found elsewhere, is strongly suggestive of Bellfounder. 



With all my study of the horses of America I can not place this 

 long measure of 41 inches as belonging outside of any family not 

 descended from Bellfounder. If I am told that it may in Mrs. Caudle 

 have been exceptional, just as it was with Lady Thorn, I admit the 

 fact, but this other fact must also be noted that exceptional conforma- 

 tions or peculiarities are not transmitted except in slight degree, or by 

 approximation, and with no sort of imiformity. In the case of the 

 descendants of Mrs. Caudle, whether coming through Ericsson, or her 



