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lines down-^ard tlirougli successive generations with any degree of 

 fullness would be wearisome to the reader and would involve an 

 array of statistical tables not within the scope of this article. In 

 general terms, however, it may be stated that the Hambletonian sub- 

 families founded by Alexander's Abdallah, Electioneer, George 

 Wilkes, Happy Medium, Harold and Volunteer are the most highly 

 esteemed, because the most productive. Alexander's Abdallah got 

 Goldsmith Maid, 2:14, the greatest of campaigning mares, and he got 

 Almont, one of the greatest trotting-sires of any age, and Belmont, 

 little less noted, he having produced Nutwood, 2:18f, and Wedge- 

 wood, 2:19, both renowned on the turf and in the stud. George 

 Wilkes was a king on the turf in his day, and to-day holds higher 

 rank as a trotting progenitor than any other horse, living or dead, if 

 we except Hambletonian himself and his greatest son Electioneer. 



Mambrino Chief, the head of the family that ranks next to that of 

 Hambletonian, was foaled in Dutchess County, Xew York, in 1844, and 

 was got by Mambrino Paymaster, son of Mambrino, from a mare 

 whose blood lines are lost in the "mists of the West." Mambrino 

 Chief was a fast trotter, and he got six trotters that made records of 

 2:30 or better, the most renowned being the famous Lady Thorn, 

 2:18^, and his sons and daughters are successful producers of trotters. 

 His best sons were Woodford Mambrino, 2:21;^, Clark Chief and 

 Mambrino Patchen, brother to Lady Thorn. The blood of Mam- 

 brino Chief, like that of the Clays, American Stars, and, it may be 

 said, all other trotting branches, has reached its greatest triumphs 

 when blended with that of Hambletonian and his sons and 

 daughters. 



The Clay family of trotters was founded by Andrew Jackson, a 

 trotter of high class in his day. He was a son of Young Bashaw, a 

 Barb imported from Tripoli in 1820. Young Bashaw's dam was by 

 the race-horse First Con?ul, and his grandam was by Messenger. 

 The dam of Andrew Jackson was a mare of unknown blood that, it 

 is said, both trotted and paced. Andrew Jackson was foaled 1827, at 

 Salem, New York, and died at Knightstown, Pennsylvania, in 1843. 

 His most noted sons, as trotting-sires, were Henry Clay and Long 

 Island Black Hawk, and some of his get were creditable performers. 

 From Henry Clay we have the line of sires known through several 

 generations by the name of Cassius M. Clay, and two other sons of 

 Henry Clay, besides the original Cassius M. Clay, are known as trotters. 

 Cassius M. Clay, First, got George M. Patchen, 2:25|, the most 



