30 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
years at the head of Governor Stanford’s famous farm 
in California. He is the sire of Sunol, of Palo Alto, 
whose dam was a thoroughbred, of Arion, and of many 
other fast trotters. 
Neither the Wilkeses nor the Electioneers pure and 
simple are possessed of much style or beauty, nor are 
they suitable for roadster use ; but some of the younger 
branches in each family where other blood has been 
introduced excel in these respects, as well as in 
trotting speed. 
There is another strain descended from Messenger 
scarcely inferior to the Hambletonians in speed, equal 
to them in soundness, and far superior in point of 
elegance and spirit. This is the Kentucky family of 
Mambrino Chief,! and more especially of his son, Mam- 
brino Patchen. The dam of Mambrino Patchen was 
the Rodes mare, by Gano,” a thoroughbred. Mambrino 
Patchen himself was a very beautiful black horse, 
about sixteen hands high, with sloping shoulders, 
high withers, a fine arched neck, a tail well put on and 
well carried. Jn fact, this whole family is noted for 
the proud and graceful carriage of its tails, so much 
so that some detractors have insinuated that artificial 
means were used to produce this effect. An own 
sister of Mambrino Patchen was Lady Thorne, perhaps 
the best trotting mare, all things considered, ever bred. 
She was a blood bay, 16} hands high, with the marks 
’ Foaled in 1844; by Mambrino Paymaster, he by Mambrino, a 
thoroughbred son of Messenger. The dam of Mambrino Chief 
cannot be traced, but she was a fine, strong, courageous animal, 
and a great roadster. 
? Gano was a son of American Eclipse. The grandam and great- 
grandam of Mambrino Patchen were also half-bred horses of much 
quality, sound and long-lived. 
