EDWIN THORNE AND MAMBRINO CHIEF 



Th. Rousseau, Daubigny, Corot, Diaz, Jaque, and 

 Von Bergen. The first Thorne settled in Dutchess 

 County, N. Y., in 1725, and for a century the estate 

 has been known as Thorndale. It was in 1851 that 

 Jonathan Thorne began to improve the place for a 

 summer residence, and he sent his son Samuel to 

 Europe to buy the best shorthorn animals that could 

 be found. One of the purchases was Grand Duke, 

 and the price, 1000 guineas, was the highest ever 

 paid up to that time for an animal of the breed. 

 Three cows of the Dutchess tribe were also pur- 

 chased, and from time to time the herd was strength- 

 ened by importation. So prominent was the Thorn- 

 dale herd that in 1861 fifteen head were exported 

 to Ireland. In 1867 the herd was sold to J. O. 

 Sheldon of Geneva, N. Y., and by him to Walcott 

 & Campbell, who sold one cow under the hammer 

 for $40,600. After this the farm passed to Edwin 

 Thorne, who made it the home of trotting horses 

 and Jersey cattle. 



The leading stallion at Thorndale in 1884 was 

 the bay horse Thorndale, 15 J hands, by Alexander's 

 Abdallah, dam Dolly by Mambrino Chief. After 

 being kept steadily in the stud for eight years, Thorn- 

 dale, in 1876, was placed in the hands of Budd 

 Doble, and he won every race in which he started, 

 taking a record of 2.22^. It was in the autumn of 

 this year that I accepted the urgent invitation of 

 Colonel W. S. King to come to the Minneapolis fair. 

 I was met at the railway station and rapidly driven 



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