CHAPTER XVI 



PREPOTENT SONS OF HAMBLETONIAN, INCLUDING 

 GEORGE WILKES 



A Icxa n ders A bda llah 



The first of Hambletonian's get, Alexander's 

 Abdallah, registered number 15, was out of a 

 crippled mare, Katy Darling, who had shown 

 speed on the road but whose pedigree was never 

 traced. Lewis J. Sutton, in whose hands Katy 

 Darling fell, and who carried her to Chester and 

 bred her to the two-year-old colt owned by Mr. 

 Rysdyk, wrote me a number of letters concerning 

 her ancestry when the subject was being warmly 

 debated by the horse-loving public years ago, and 

 I accepted his conclusion that her lineage was 

 unknown. August 27, 1852, Alexander's Abdal- 

 lah was foaled, and when 17 months old the bay 

 colt was sold by Mr. Sutton to E. Hoyt and 

 Seely Edsall of Goshen, New York. The sole 

 ownership of the youngster was soon vested 

 in Mr. Edsall, and he placed him in the stud in 



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