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immediate that he was a member of the numerous and 

 contemporary Davy Crockett pacing tribe. 



It is more than possible, it is probable, that the un- 

 identified Davy Crockett that got the dam of North 

 Star Mambrino, 2 :264, by Mambrino Chief, and foaled 

 but two years later than Mambrino Howard, was the 

 same horse. The name of the breeder "of Mambrino 

 Howard is not preserved. The Register says, "bred 

 in Kentucky," passed to K. C. Barker, Detroit, Mich- 

 igan, then to General R. L. Howard, Buffalo, N. Y. It 

 is possible Mr. Barker bred him, as he bought his dam 

 "before the war" and he was foaled in 1885, so the 

 chances are that he bred him or else that his dam was 

 carrying him when purchased by ]\Ir. Barker. He was 

 first called simply Mambrino, and there is no doubt 

 but that he was one of the fastest colts of his day, as 

 he won a race at Detroit, June 11, 1862, for four- 

 year-olds, in which he trotted the fourth heat in 2 46^, 

 and no four-year-old had at that time trotted in 2 130, 

 the record being 2 :^oh held by Ericsson, also owned 

 by Mr. Barker. Eleven years after Mambrino How- 

 ard was foaled, his dam Belle was bred to Ericsson, 

 and in 1870 she foaled at Lexington, where both were 

 kept, the noted black horse Doble, one of the most sen- 

 sational Kentucky colts of his day, who in 1870 broke 

 the two-year-old record by trotting in 2 :4of at Lexing- 

 ton. He ultimately took a record of 2 128 at five years 

 and died at the age of twelve. It is perhaps a similar 

 coincidence that Doble, like his half-brother, never got 



