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tional type, and the same element from which he 
derives his coaching appearance is found in a large 
proportion of our trotting stock. Pamlico’s grandsire 
and our most famous trotting stallion was Rysdyck’s 
Hambletonian, who died about fourteen years ago. 
As I have mentioned in an earlier chapter, he was de- 
scended in the paternal line from Mambrino, one of 
the best and stoutest thoroughbreds that ever ran in 
England; but his dam was by Bellfounder, and Bell- 
founder was a Norfolk trotter of the purest stamp. 
Here, then, we have the same element upon which the 
English hackney is based. 
The Hambletonian family possesses a wonderful 
aptitude for retaining its own and assimilating other 
good qualities; and when united with strains possess- 
ing the nervous energy and the “quality” in which 
it is deficient, it rises to a high degree of excellence, 
as in the Volunteers, the Almonts, and many others. 
The Hambletonian carriage. horse is an easy poten- 
tiality.1 Other trotting families, notably the Mam- 
brino Patchens and some of the Clays, contain similar 
material. 
Carriage horses thus bred would have unusual speed. 
They would be a race of trotting coachers, and those 
that lacked the fineness of a carriage horse would 
nevertheless be strong, serviceable animals, easily sold 
at a fair price; whereas the strictly trotting-bred 
horse, like the strictly running-bred horse, is apt to 
prove good for nothing if not good for racing. 
In speaking of Pamlico, I mentioned his bold, high 
action. This he does not inherit from his Hamble- 
1 Tt has been realized to a considerable extent at the Payne 
Stock Farm in Hinsdale, Massachusetts. 
