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the Dictators, and all the various so-called 

 Hambletonians of the present day. This cele- 

 brated horse, justly entitled to be classed as 

 the great progenitor of the American trotter, 

 was bred in Orange Co., N. Y., foaled in 1849, 

 and was kept in that county until his death, 

 which occurred March 26, 1876. 



Then we have the Mambrinos, that take their 

 name from Mambrino Chief, who was got by 

 Mambrino Paymaster, a son of the Mambrino 

 above referred to as the grandsire of Rysdyk's 

 Hambletonian. The dam of Mambrino Chief, 

 like the dam of Abdallah, was a mare of un- 

 known blood. He was bred in Orange Co., N. 

 Y., foaled in 1844, and when ten years old was 

 taken to Kentucky, where he died in 1861. 

 Upon the highly-bred and thoroughbred mares 

 of that region he was very successful as a sire 

 of fast trotters, and the mares got by him have 

 been especially noted as producers of great 

 trotters when coupled with other trotting 

 strains. 



The Clays constitute another trotting family 

 of note. The original Henry Clay was a fa- 

 mous trotting stallion, foaled 1837, got by An- 

 drew Jackson (also a famous trotter), who was 

 a grandson of Bashaw (an imported Barb), and 

 related to imported Messenger through the sec- 

 ond dam of his sire, who was by that horse. 

 The dam of Henry Clay was a great trotting 



