startle, Nelson 207 



campaign mare, Mambrino Maid, 2.15I Gui- 



nette, 2.05 at the pace, and Emma Offut, 2.1 1 J 



at the trot, are out of daughters of Mambrino 



Startle. 



In all, Hambletonian has 150 sires of speed 



and 80 dams of speed. Without question he 



was the greatest trotting progenitor that ever 



lived. 



Nelson 



Nelson is a bay horse, foaled in 1882, by 

 Young Rolfe, 2.2 1^ (son of Tom Rolfe, he by 

 Pugh Aratus, out of Pocahontas, 2.17I); dam 

 Gretchen by Gideon by Rysdyk's Hambletonian ; 

 second dam Kate by Vermont Black Hawk, son 

 of Sherman Morgan by Justin Morgan. He trot- 

 ted at Cambridge City, Indiana, October 21, 

 1890, in 2. 1 of, which gave him the post of 

 honor in the stallion group. Second to him in 

 1890 was Stamboul, with a record of 2.1 1. 

 Third was Axtell, with a record of 2.12, and 

 fourth was Palo Alto, with a record of 2. 12 J. 

 Nelson was bred and owned by C. H. Nelson 

 of Waterville, Maine, and had his owner not 

 become involved in a dispute with the two gov- 

 erning associations, his chances for more endur- 

 ing fame would have been greater. He was a 



