88 HAMBLETONIAN'S STUD CAREER. 



The average price of the thirty-seven 2.30 performers being- 

 a fraction over $9,162. Dictator was sold for $25,000 when 

 twenty years old. 



The stallions in this list which have won renown in the 

 stud are Administrator, George Wilkes, Jay Gould, and Sen- 

 tinel. Their united progeny would have sold for a fabulous 

 amount of money. 



The fastest of the get of the above performing sires are 

 as follows : Administrator, Catchfly, 2.184 ; George Wilkes, 

 Wilson, 2.16J; Jay Gould, Pixley, 2.16; and Sentinel, Von 

 Arnim, 2.19£. 



Of the trotting stallions of the world having a total of 

 fifty or more in the list, arranged according to their respective 

 standing as measured by the total number of standard per- 

 formers, are Electioneer, with 150 ; Nutwood, with 106 ; Red 

 Wilkes, with 102 ; Happy Medium, with 88 ; George Wilkes, 

 with 78 ; Onward, with 77 ; Blue Bull, with 60 ; Egbert, with 

 60 ; and Alcantara, with 51. 



Of these nine greatest sires in the world, four are the sons 

 of Hambletonian, three are his grandsons, and one is his great- 

 grandson. 



As to the source from which Hambletonian derived his 

 marvelous speed-producing qualities with the power to per- 

 petuate the same to his descendants, I claim, and always have 

 claimed, that there should be as much credit given his dam as 

 to his sire, and that this great Norfolk born-trotter, Imported 

 Belfounder, a direct descendant of the great Fireaway family 

 of England,, should receive as much credit as Imported Mes- 

 senger. 



I know that Wallace laid great stress on the fact that 

 Hambletonian was " inbred to Messenger " ; yes, he was, but 

 all the Messenger strains in Hambletonian combined made 

 him but one-fourth Messenger. He was also one-fourth Bel- 

 founder ; just as much Belfounder as Messenger. 



We find the potency of the Belfounder blood in the Clay 

 family, as more trotters trace to Sayer's Harry Clay than all 



