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botli being by otlier sons of Messenger, and tliey were the first trot- 

 ters of their time. The latter trotted three miles in 8:11 in 1829. 

 The most noted progenitors of trotters left by Bishop's Hambletonian 

 were his sons, Harris' Hambletonian and Judson's Hambletonian. 

 The former sired Green Mountain Maid, 2:28^; Hero, pacing- record, 

 2:20i, and others of less note. A son of his sired Joker, 2:224, and 

 fix of his daughters have produced trotters. Maj. Edsall, the sire of 

 Robert McGregor, 2:17i^, was out of a daughter of Harris' Hamble- 

 tonian, as was also Curler, Stillson, and other sires of note yet living. 

 Judson's Hambletonian was less distinguished than Harris', but his 

 blood enters into several lines, the most prominent being through his 

 son, Andrus' Hambletonian, the sire of the trotting-mare. Princess, 

 that, after meeting the best campaigners of her day, from the Pacific 

 to the Atlantic, made still more firm her rank in the records as the 

 dam of Happy Medium, one of the greatest trotting- sires the world 

 has yet produced. 



Coming to Mambrino, in a trotting-sense the greatest son of Mes- 

 senger, we reach the keystone of our subject, for from his loins came 

 two lines, the greatest in all trotting-history. One son of Mambrino 

 gave us the sterling Mambrino Chief family of trotters; another got 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian, far and away the greatest of all trotting- 

 progenitors. The latter founded a trotting-family with which none 

 can compare, and to which none approach, and his blood has, it is 

 truly said, "raised the trotting-horse of America to the highest point 

 of excellence." Mambrino Paymaster, son of Mambrino, sired Mam- 

 brino Chief, the founder of the Mambrino trotting-family. 



Mambrino was a bay horse, foaled 1806, bred by Lewis Morris, of 

 "Westchester, New York, and was by Messenger, out of a daughter 

 of imported Sour Crout. He never raced, and was so little valued that 

 history loses trace of him for part of his career. He died in Dutchess 

 County in or about 1831. He was a large, coar&e, leggy horse, with 

 Avell-defined trotting-action. 



His son Abdallah was bred by John Treadwell, Salisbury, Long 

 Island, and was foaled in 1823, his dam being Amazonia, a trotting- 

 mare of unknown blood. He was an unattractive rat-tailed horse, of 

 vicious temper, and was little valued at any time. So lightly was 

 he thought of in Orange County, so a writer states, that he wintered 

 one year with no better shelter than the leeward side of a hay-stack 

 within sight of the spot where his son Hambletonian afterward lived 

 in honor. Finally cast off, he was given to a Long Island farmer. 



