84 LIGHT HORSES : BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



important part played by the Arabians, the Barbs, and other 

 horses of Eastern origin in founding our families of racers, 

 trotters, and Hackneys, and even coach-horses, has been 

 freely and forcibly illustrated. It has been conclusively 

 shown that not only is the Arab the most potent factor in 

 the composition of our racers, but also that 



* Oh he's such a one to bend the knee, and tuck his haunches in, 

 And to throw the dirt in flats' eyes he never thinks a sin.' 



We know that one of the most famous trotting families of 

 America is of Eastern descent, and that an astute and enter- 

 prising breeder, Mr. R. Huntington, of Rochester, New York, 

 is so impressed with the value of this hard, blue blood, that he 

 has made some purchases from Mr. Vidal's stud, with a view 

 to replenishing this strain, and of establishing a pure trotting 

 tribe, to rival the record of Maud S., of the Western gelding 

 Gay, and of Axtell, in the States. 



" The ancestry of this trotting phenomenon supplies abun- 

 dant proof that Mr. Huntington is working on promising ground, 

 and that to this colt's back desert blood is due the foundation 

 of his excellence. That he has the trotting instinct intensi- 

 fied is substantiated by the following tabulated pedigree : 



[ Hambletonian 



Geo. \Vilkes:2.22..J 



(Dolly Spanker | Henry Clay 



Lady Banker 



'Mam. Patchen, bro. to f Mambrino Chief 

 Lady Thome 2:iS| ... j by Gano 



Guy Wilkes 



dam of Lady Dunnj dam of (American Star 



X 0-1 



< H-l 



Mambrino Boy 



Joe Bunker 2: 19^ J a Clay mare 



/Mam. Patchen, bro. to (Mambrino Chief 

 I Lady Thome 2:i8x | by Gano 



norino ooy -j 



2:26^ (Roving Nellie. 



/1k , , . ("Mam. Pilot 2.27A 



Mambrino Royal | by Lieu t. Bassin|er 



Bird Mitchell ] 



I , ^ ,, ("Sherman Mo 



(by Comet Morgan , Buckshot 



