CRESCEUS, 2 : O 2 y 4 



three years before ; among them was a chestnut filly, 

 one of his last foals, two years old, and in foal to 

 Mambrino Howard. She was called Contention and 

 was bought for $260 by James Dority, of Toledo, 

 Ohio, and the next spring (1880) she foaled a solid 

 black filly, Mabel, the dam of Cresceus. Mabel is first 

 found in Vol. 9 of the Trotting Register, where she is 

 described (p. 458) as a "black mare foaled 1880, by 

 Mambrino Howard 3656; dam Contention by Allie 

 West 745, bred by Darnaby and Treacy, Lexington, 

 Ky., passed to Charles M. Rowe, Erie, Michigan." 

 In Vol. n, p. 586, she is brought forward with the rec- 

 ord, "passed to Tames Dority, Toledo, Ohio, April i, 

 1885, then to George H. Ketcham, October 20, 1891." 

 But there is some error here, or else Mr. Dority had 

 leased Mabel before he bought her in 1885, for in 

 1883 he had bred her probably "on shares" with C. L. 

 Osgood, of Samaria, Michigan, to the latter's stallion, 

 Patchen, and she had foaled her first produce, the fa- 

 mous black mare Nightingale, 2:io|-, in 1884. 



Nightingale is recorded in Vol. 10, p. 540, as bred 

 by Messrs. Dority & Osgood (the latter address given 

 as Erie instead of Samaria), "passed to James Dority, 

 then to James Dority and C. M. Rowe, then to estate 

 of James Dority." The horses belonging to the Dority 

 estate were sold in the combination sale held by New- 

 ton & Rundall at Toledo, Ohio, October 20, 1891, when 

 Mabel was purchased by Mr. Ketcham for $250. 

 Nightingale and several others of her produce were 



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