THE LIGHT-HARNESS BREEDS OF IORSES 89 
sire of producing brood mares. This line has been notable 
for the production of campaigners and race horses rather 
than for colt trotters, although Volunteer ranks it among 
Hambletonian 10’s sons, with ten sires and sixteen per- 
formers. Goldsmith Maid, 2:16%, of this strain, the 
champion trotter in 1871-72, and again in 1874, when she 
reduced her record to 2: 14, has been conceded to be the 
greatest campaigner of any time. 
(4) Happy Medium, ranks seventh among Hamble- 
tonian 10’s sons, with two sires and six performers. 
(5) Dictator. In the production of colt trotters, the 
writer, Volunteer, in reference already given, places Dictator 
fourth as his rank among the sons of Hambletonian 10, 
with six sires and sixteen performers. 
(6) Strathmore. This line ranks very high in producing 
brood mares. 
Among other noted sons of Hambletonian 10 are Egbert, 
Aberdeen, Harold (sire of Maud S, 2: 08%, champion 
trotter 1883-5, and sire of Lord Russell, sire of Kremlin, 
2:08%, champion stallion in 1892); Volunteer (sire of 
St. Julien, 2:114, champion trotter in 1880); Jay 
Gould, champion stallion in 1871-2. The Hambletonian 
family as a whole is given first place by Volunteer for 
siring colt trotters, with 106 sires of 223 performers to its 
credit. 
96. The Mambrino chief family, through the male line, 
includes the following sons of Mambrino Chief. I. 
(1) Woodford Mambrino. A striking feature of this 
line is the purity of the trotting gait, for there are but few 
pacers among them. 
(2) Mambrino Patchen. This line has a reputation, to 
which it is entitled, for having in its ranks a large num- 
ber of producing brood mares. Many noted stallions, 
