468 DESCENDANTS OF MA MERINO CHIEF. 



Alexander, at Woodburn, and foaled 18G2, the same j'ear as Mam- 

 brino Patchen. He has had the choicest mares of Kentucky, but 

 never until within a very short period had any colts that participated 

 in the local stakes in Kentucky. Had he been a reproducer equal to 

 his own merits and ability as a trotter, no stallion of his family would 

 now show a list equal to his record. But it has been with him as with 

 Brignoli and Kentucky Chief, and the young stallions from Mam- 

 brino Patchen and Sir Archy mares — the Diomed blood is not trotting 

 blood, and when allowed full or controlling sway, the stallion which 

 carries it will not bred trotters. 



Duroc blood is trotting blood in union with that of Messenger, but 

 Diomed blood is antagonistic to the ways and impulses of a trotter. 



Mambrino Chief gave testimony to his own blood composition. 

 He reveled in his own — which was Duroc-Messenger — and the field 

 of matchless fertility to him was one of precise consanguinity. Wood- 

 ford Mambrino is the Star stallion of the Mambrino Chief family, but 

 the great producers of that family are Mambrino Patchen, Ericsson, 

 Clark Chief; and the failure of Idol and Alhambra was not on account 

 of a lack of the proper blood elements for trotting quality, but because 

 their dams were strictly thoroughbred mares. 



