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lah. She proved with foal, and on the fifteenth day 

 of May, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, gave birth 

 to the colt which since has become so famous through- 

 out the land under the name of Hambletonian. 



The mare, with her colt by her side, was sold by 

 Mr. Seely to the late William M. Rysdyk, for the sum 

 of one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The circum- 

 stances of Mr. Rysdyic were at this time very limited, 

 and it was only through the assistance of friends that 

 he was enabled to efiect the purchase even at the low 

 figures named by the owner. From the price paid we 

 may readily infer that there was nothing very attract- 

 tive or extraordinary either in the appearance of the 

 dam or her foal. The colt, however, under the careful 

 management of his new owner, rapidly improved, and 

 was shown the same fall at the fair of the Orange 

 County Agricultural Society at Goshen. 



At this exhibition he was led by the side of a horse, 

 and was equipped with a white bridle, martingals, and 

 girth, a fact often spoken of by men who were boys at 

 that time. This brought the colt into some little no- 



