84 rysdyke's hambletonian. 



Belfounder stood at Charlestown, Mass., about six years, 

 and was then leased to parties in New York State for $500 per 

 year. He finally died on Long Island in 1843. 



His blood mixed admirably with that, of Abdallah and 

 Clay. The dam of Sayer's Harry Clay, 2.29, was by Imported 

 Belfounder. Sayer's Harry Clay got the dams of twelve 2.30 

 trotters, and also the dam of the great Electioneer with 150 

 performers in the list with records ranging from 2.08J to 2.30. 



The Charles Kent mare was naturally a very superior ani- 

 mal. When three years old she was purchased from her 

 breeder by a Mr. Seeley for $300. He sold her for $400 to a 

 Mr. Pray, who sold her to a New York butcher named Chivers 

 for $500, who, in turn, sold her to a banker for $600. 



"While owned by the New York banker she became so lame 

 as to be unfit for road work, and was sold to Charles Kent, who 

 bred her to Webber's Tom Thumb, the produce being a filly 

 which bred to Vernol's Black Hawk, son of Long Island Black 

 Hawk, brought the noted trotting sire, Green's Bashaw, whose 

 list of 2.30 performers outnumbers that of any other stallion 

 tracing in the male line to the noted stallion Andrew Jackson. 



One Eye, dam of the Charles Kent mare, was by Bishop's 

 Hambletonian, out of Silver Tail by Imported Messenger. 

 Bishop's Hambletonian was by Imported Messenger, out of 

 Pheasant by Shark ; he by Marske, sire of the great English 

 race horse " English Eclipse." 



Abdallah, the sire of Hambletonian, was a bay horse, fifteen 

 and three-quarters hands high, bred on Long Island, N. Y., got 

 by Mambrino and foaled in 1823, hence was twenty-six years 

 of age when Hambletonian was foaled. 



Abdallah was a coarse, homely horse, and was never well 

 patronized in the stud. J. W. Hunt of Lexington, Ky., pur- 

 chased him in the fall of 1839, and rode him from New York 

 city to Lexington, Ky., and made the season of 1840 with him 

 at Lexington. But he failed to be appreciated by the breeders 

 of the Blue Grass country, and his stud duties were said to be 

 very light. 



