1 86 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



record of 2.21^, was by Volunteer, and she is 

 the dam of Sidney, 2.i9|-, sire of Sidney Dillon, 

 the sire of Lou Dillon. Volunteer was a bay 

 horse of commanding appearance, standing 15.3, 

 and he died at Walnut Grove Farm, Decem- 

 ber 13, 1888. Lady Patriot died at Thorn- 

 dale, September 2, 1876, the property of Edwin 

 Thorne. Her son, Sentinel, brother of Volun- 

 teer, trotted to a record of 2.29J. He died at 

 ten years old after siring trotters and sires and 

 dams of trotters. Heroine, the sister of Volun- 

 teer, is the dam of Shawmut, 2.26, and Hero 

 of Thorndale, prominent as a brood-mare sire. 

 Shawmut is also a sire of speed. 



Aberdeeft 



Isaiah Rynders, who was once a notable figure 

 in the political life of New York City, owned a 

 chestnut mare, foaled in 1852, by Seely's Ameri- 

 can Star, called Widow Machree, who trotted to 

 a record of 2.29 at Union Course, Long Island, 

 June 7, 1 86 1. He sent this courageous mare to 

 Chester, and in the spring of 1866 a bay colt by 

 Hambletonian was born. The youngster devel- 

 oped into a shapely and strongly muscled horse 

 and was named Aberdeen. Captain Rynders 



