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HISTORY 



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HORSE HAMBLETONIAN, 



The Property of the late Wm. M. Rysdyk. 



The pedigree of this celebrated horse is familiar to 

 almost every horseman throughout the civilized 

 world ; indeed, perhaps no single horse ever foaled has 

 won from his own intrinsic merits such an extensive 

 and enduring reputation. 



He was by Abdallah, the grandson of the renowned 

 imported Messenger ; his dam the Charles Kent mare, 

 and she by imported Bellfounder. 



Abdallah was kept for mares at Chester, Orange 

 County, iu the years eighteen hundred and forty- seven 

 and eight, at twenty dollars to insure a colt. In the 

 latter year, Jonas Seely, of the same town, owned this 

 Charles Kent mare, and bred her to the horse Abdal- 



