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medium breadth; peaked from hips to setting on of the tail, 

 which was very thin-haired; long from hip to hock; rather 

 thin quarters and short fetlocks." Mr. Kissam omits to say, 

 however, that his color was blood bay, and that he had a star 

 in forehead, with left hind-foot white above the ankle. He 

 stood 15.3 hands high. He was never broken to harness, 

 being ridden under th 3 saddle. He was kept at the farm of 

 his breeder in 1828 and 1829 ; at Flatbush and Gravesend, 

 N. Y., 1830 ; near Jamaica, N. Y., 1831 ; at different places on 

 Long Island and in New Jersey till 1839; at Lexington, Ky., 

 1840 ; at Union Course, L. I., 1841 and 1842 ; at Goshen, N. Y., 

 1843; at Freehold, X. J., 1844 and 1845; at Chester, N. Y., 

 1846-48; at the Bull's Head, :N'. Y., 1849; at Union Course, 

 N. Y., 1850; and at Patchogue, L. L, 1851. He died of neg- 

 lect and starvation upon a sandy beach on Long Island, in 

 November, 1854. Abdallah got more fast trotters than any 

 horse of his time. The records show that at least twenty-two 

 of his sons and daughters started in races, and twenty of the 

 number were race winners. Three of his get are found in the 

 2:30 list, viz.: Sir AValter, 2:27; O'Blennis, 2:30; Frank For- 

 rester, 2:30. He seems to have transmitted the tendency to 

 trot with much greater uniformity through his daughters than 

 through his sons. His daughters are credited with producing 

 eight trotters that are found in the 2:30 list, including Gold- 

 smith Maid, 2:14; and the records show that thirty-two stal- 

 lions out of daughters of Abdallah have got 2:30 performers. 



Abdomen. The cavity which occupies the rear part of 

 the trunk or body of the horse ; the exterior part of which is 

 known as the flank. 



Abductor. One of the great locomotive muscles of the 

 horse, the function of which is to draw away a limb from the 

 axis of the body ; to extend. 



Abing"doii Mile. A famous old English race-course, 

 the length of which was seven furlongs, 211 yards. 



Abrasion. An abraded spot or place; applied chiefly 

 to a fretting or rut^bing of the skin, by which the underlying 

 tissues are exposed. Even though slight, and requiring but 

 little care, abrasions are, until perfectly healed, an unsoundness. 



Action. The manner of moving; an exertion of power 

 or force ; the real relation of a cause to its effect. Action 

 takes its direction from the hips, and power is invariably resi- 

 dent when a horse has a long and somewhat oblique, rather 

 than horizontal quarter. The stifle should never be lower 

 than the elbows, as contributors to leverage and power in the 

 hock. 



