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his sire having been Mambrino Paymaster. He is the head 

 of a family that ranks next to that of Hambletonian. Mam- 

 brino Chief was foaled in Dutchess County, New York, in 

 1844, and was from a mare of unknown pedigree. He was a 

 fast trotter himself, and got some noted sons. 



The Clay family of trotters was founded by Andrew 

 Jackson, a trotter of high class in his day. He was a son of 

 Young Bashaw, son of Grand Bashaw, a Barb imported from 

 Tripoli in 1820. Young Bashaw's dam was by the racehorse 

 First Consul, and his grand-dam was by Messenger. The 

 dam of Andrew Jackson was a mare of unknown blood that, 

 it is said, both trotted and paced. Andrew Jackson was 

 foaled in 1827 at Salem, New York, and died in 1843. 



Other blood-influences in the early record of the trotter 

 were the imported stallion Diomed (winner of the first English 

 Derby), and the imported Norfolk trotter Bellfounder (Jary's). 

 The latter was foaled in 1816, and was by Stevens' Bell- 

 founder out of Velocity by Haphazard. Velocity trotted on 

 the Norwich road, in 1806, sixteen miles in one hour, and 

 Bellfounder trotted in 1821, at five years old, two miles in 

 six minutes. The Messenger and the Bellfounder blood was 

 united in producing Hambletonian. 



The Morgans are a very old trotting family ; they are de- 

 scended in the paternal line from a, horse called Justin Morgan, 

 bred in Vermont in 1793. The Pilots trace from the old black 

 pacer Pilot, who was of French Canadian ancestry. He was 

 the sire of Pilot, jun., sire of Maud S. and Jan-Eye-See, two 

 noted performers. 



The chief families of trotters, therefore, are the Hamble- 

 tonians, the Mambrino Chiefs, the Clays, the Morgans, the 

 Bashaws, and the Pilots. 



The first recorded trotting performance in America was 

 that of Yankee, at Harlem, New York, July 6th, 1806. The 

 time of the mile was 2:59, but the track was not a full mile. 

 At Philadelphia, August, 1810, a "Boston Horse" trotted 

 the mile in harness in 2:48!. In 1832 Burster trotted in 2:32. 

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