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The Horse Industry in New York State 



begot trotters. 



ramified into so many twigs that to say that a horse is Wilkes- 

 bred signifies that he is Standardbred and that is about; all. It 

 may, therefore, be worth while to run out some of these family 

 lines. 



descendants of messenger 

 So far as the Hambletonians, the Wilkes, and the Mambrinos 

 are concerned the focal point is found in Messenger — a gray 

 Thoroughbred imported from England in 1788. While he was a 

 running race horse, many of his sons and grandsons out of the 

 common trotting road mares of that time, became trotters and 

 The most notable of all sons of Messenger was 



Mambrino, at whom the 

 family tree first di- 

 "v i d e s. Mambrino, 

 sired both Abdallah 

 and Mambrino Pay- 

 master. From the 

 former comes Hamble^ 

 tonian 10 and his 1287 

 descendants ; while 

 Mambrino Paymaster 

 sired Mambrino (liief, 

 a cousin of Hambleton- 

 ian and progenitor of a 

 blood line known col- 

 lectively as the ]Vram- 

 brinos, which nicked 

 especially well with 

 the get of Hambleton- 

 ian himself. 



Of the nnmerons 

 sons of Hambletonian 

 fourteen became noted 

 as producing .sires, and 

 George Wilkes was the 



Fig. 5. Monument over Grave of Hambletox- jrreatest of them all. 

 IAN 10 AT Chester, N. Y. ^ . 



{From " Productive Horse Husbandry" — Courtcsi, „f J. B. Lip- ^^'^'^ again the trCG 

 pincott, Publishers.) i i j v J* 



branches and subdi- 

 vides through the sons and daughters of George Wilkes and 

 their succeeding generations, which are almost legion. The pre- 

 potency in this family is remarkable. 



