EDWIN THORNE AND MAMBRINO CHIEF 



at Boston the $10,000 purse, beating Clingstone, 

 Santa Claus, and Fanny Witherspoon. His dam, 

 Lady Lightfoot, was by Ashland, son of Mambrino 

 Chief and Utilla by imp. Margrave. Mr. Clay 

 presented Ashland as a yearling to Mr. Thorne, and, 

 after being brought to Dutchess County, the colt was 

 struck by lightning and nearly paralyzed. When 

 three years old, Ashland was traded to Geo. T. 

 Hitchcock, who drove him home, a distance of 28 

 miles. 



Mambrino Paymaster, the sire of Mambrino 

 Chief, was at one time sold for $90, and his 

 stud fee was $2.50. The dam of Mambrino 

 Chief was a strongly made, dark brown mare stand- 

 ing about 15.2, a little angular, possessed of nerve 

 force, and of more than ordinary speed. She had 

 several foals, three by Mambrino Paymaster. Goliah, 

 who stood i6J hands, could trot better than 2.40. 

 Mambrino Chief, his brother, was foaled in 1844, 

 the property of Richard Eldridge, who sold him as 

 a three-year-old to Warren Williams. Then he 

 passed to G. T. Williams, who sold him to James 

 M. Cockroft. Only common mares were bred to 

 him in New York, and up to 1854, he was never in 

 the hands of a regular trainer, although he was a 

 natural trotter. He trotted the Washington Hollow 

 track in 2.36, and was timed a quarter in 37 seconds. 

 In 1853 James B. Clay visited Thorndale to inspect 

 the cattle, and while there asked for a stallion that 

 would do to cross on well-bred Kentucky mares. Mr, 



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