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when 4 years old in 1m. 8s., a performance rarely equalled at any 

 age. Ericsson trotted at 4 years old in 2m. 30s., to a wagon, and 

 is now at the head of the large breeding stud of K. C. Barker, 

 Detroit, Mich. Brignoii, at 5 years old, trotted two-mile heats in 

 harness in 5m. 20$s., 5m. 18 $s , arid 5m. 17s. Mambrino Patchen 

 is a full brother of Lady Thorn, and wretchedly misnamed, being 

 related to Patchen only in a remote degree, though both inherit- 

 ing largely the Messenger blood. 



The most distinguished son of Mambrino Chief, is Mambrino 

 Pilot, owned by 0. P. Relf, of Norristown, Pa. ; and, though foaled 

 so lately as 1859, is already distinguished as a sire of trotters. He 

 is a brown of large size and pony built, faultless in form and action, 

 with an air of majesty in every attitude. At 6 years old, with 

 very short preparation, he trotted against time in 2m. 27s. He 

 inherits the blood of Messenger through three channels, and of 

 Dionied through two, with a cross of Old Pilot, through his best 

 son, Pilot, Jr. 



Considering that his oldest colts are but 5 years old, and that 

 when those now old enough to show speed were begotten, he had 

 not made his reputation, and did not receive the best of trotting 

 mares, the number and speed of his fast colts is truly astonishing. 



Grift, ch. g., received five forfeits at 4 years old, and challenged 

 through the " Spirit of the Times" any colt of the same age, to 

 trot in harness for $1000 a side, without being accepted. Bell- 

 ringer, b. s., trotted in 2m. 40s. before he was 4 years old. Gift 

 and Bellringer both belong to Mr. Relf. Cranston, owned by 

 Amasa Sprague, R. I., at 3 years old, trotted the second mile in 

 a two-mile heat in 2m. 40s. Vosburgh, ch. s., the property of 

 A. .& 'J\ H. Carpenter, of Lyons, Iowa, when just 3 years old, 

 trotted several times in 2m. 40s., and challenged any other horse 

 in the world of the same age, to trot for any amount, at 4 years 

 old, in September 1869. Charles S. Dole, of Chicago, 111., has a 

 chestnut mare in his breeding stud, by Mambrino Pilot, that in 

 the management of Dr. Kerr, of Lexington, Ky., trotted in 3m. 

 at 2 years old. Eschol, Detective, Etta, Agitator, and Mambrino 

 Messenger are other fast colts of the same family. 



Horsemen have been looking among the coming stallions for a 

 successor to the renowned Rysdyk's Hambletonian, whose age 

 must soon end his usefulness; and if the colts of Mambrino Pilot 

 keep the early promise, and improve with maturity, as his remark- 

 able pedigree and performances seem to justify us in expecting, 

 then is a successor of even greater merit already indicated. 



There are many good trotting foal getters in the country not 

 named in these allusions to the families oi trotters. To mention 

 half of them individually would be beyond the scope and limits 

 of this Essay, but most of them belong to some of the familirn 



