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many other sons have produced numbers of 2:30 horses. Beside this 
speed-production, Hambletonian has begotten horses with his capacity of 
reproducing producers, the most prominent of which is Alexander’s Abdallah, 
who produced the trotter Goldsmith Maid (2:14), and the great producing 
stallion Almont, who has produced twenty-three trotters and one pacer 
with 2:30 records or better, three’ of which have beaten 2:20, beside 
several stallions that have produced 2:30 performers. Among the other 
sons of Alexander’s Abdallah that have produced 2:30 trotters are Jim 
Monroe, Belmont, Major Edsal, Thornedale, Wood’s Hambletonian, and 
Abdallah Pilot. Many grandsons of Alexander’s Abdallah have also 
produced well. 
The other Messenger branch, through Mambrino Chief, is scarcely 
less important. While not giving us as many trotters or as great speed, 
for other purposes perhaps just as desirable, it has done much to preserve 
the trotting form. Its representatives incline to size and style, as well as 
to constitutional vigor, vitality and lasting power. Their founder 
was a large, coarse, heavy-headed, but strong and resolute horse, with a 
very powerful, sweeping gait. He has six 2:30 performers to his 
credit. His son Mambrino Patchen, brother to Lady Thorn, has thirteen; 
Woodford Mambrino, another son, has ten; of his other sons, Clark Chief 
has eight, Mambrino Pilot six (one in 2:1734), Ericsson five, Manbrunello 
two, Fisk’s Mambrino Chief four, Idol three, Ashland Chief two. His 
grandsons bid fair to produce equally well. This in the main brings 
down Messenger. 
If we classify pacers under the head of distinct individual founders, 
one pacing stallion would still take rank in direct prepotency, although 
his powers of perpetuation have gone no farther than the first generation 
to any extent. We refer to Blue Bull, and it is a question whether he 
does not take equal rank with Hambletonian in this respect, and some 
claim that he even surpasses the latter. He has thirty-four trotters to his 
credit in the 2:30 list (another being doubtful), and he has one pacer, so that 
in this matter he would equal Hambletonian’s thirty-six, if the pacer and 
doubtful trotter are reckoned. Besides, it is very certain that he will surpass 
him in the future. Ifthe present standard should be cut down to 2:25, each 
would have fourteen; if it were reduced to 2:20, Hambletonian would have 
two and Blue Bull one, both being then surpassed by a number of others. 
(Since the foregoing was written two other trotters of the 2:30 class have 
been added to Blue Bull’s record). 
Tie next greatest of the pacing families are the Pilots, the descend- 
ants of old Pacing Pilot, through his sons Pilot, Jr., Tom Crowder, and a 
few others of less note. Pilot, Jr. has seven or eight trotters in the 2:30 
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