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6 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
Nearly fifty years later, in November, 1854, an old 
bay horse called Abdallah was turned out on the sands 
of this same Long Island, and abandoned to die of cold 
and starvation. He had been sold for thirty-five dol- 
lars to a fisherman, who attempted to put him in har- 
ness. But Abdallah had never been broken to harness, 
and being of a vicious temper he kicked the fish-wagon 
to pieces, and thereupon the fisherman cruelly cast him 
adrift. Abdallah was a grandson of Messenger, and, 
so far as we know, the best of his descendants in that 
generation. He was an ugly, rat-tailed horse, but big, 
strong, tough, and a fast trotter. Unlike the Messen- 
ger stock in general, he had fine sloping shoulders. 
Abdallah was the sire of Rysdyck’s Hambletonian,? 
who founded the noted trotting family called the 
Hambletonians.® 
The dam of Rysdyck’s Hambletonian, known to 
fame as the Charles Kent mare, was of a lineage en- 
tirely different, for her sire was Bellfounder, a Nor- 
folk trotter. Bellfounder was imported in 1822 by 
Mr. James Boott, a rich merchant of Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, who paid seven hundred pounds sterling for 
1 Abdallah was sired by Mambrino. Mambrino was by Mes- 
senger, out of a mare by imported Sour-Crout. Abdallah’s dam 
was said to be by another son of Messenger. 
2 The sire of his grandam was called Bishop’s ‘ Hamiltonian,” 
after Alexander Hamilton. The name was however corrupted to 
“WHambletonian,” which was also the name of an English race 
horse bred in Hambleton, a district of Yorkshire. 
3 Of the twenty trotting stallions who stand highest on the list, 
judging by the records of their sons and daughters, all but two are 
descended from Rysdyck’s Hambletonian, either on the paternal or 
maternal side; and of those two one is also a descendant of Mes- 
senger (in a different line), and the breeding of the other is un- 
known on the dam’s side. : 
