The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-11-07
THE ABDALLAH BLOOD.

THE ABDALLAH BLOOD.
The progress of breeding trot-
tiers for the past four or FIVE years
has developed a high and increas-
| ing estimate of the blood of Alb
dallah. There have at all times
been favorite strains of blood.
For while it seemed as if the
popular demand was for the Star
and Hambletonlan cross; but it
has been found that while the
great Messenger family are good
everywhere, and in all their crosses,
that of Abdallah seems to concen-
trate in great degree the peculiar
exceilencies of that most remarka
BILE family of horses. All that is
known of Abdallah is, that he was
a son of Mambrino, the most dis
tinguished son of imported Mes
senger. His dam was a noted
mare of Amazonia, who possessed
all the characteristics of the Mes
senger family, and was alleged by
some to be daughter of Messen-
ger; but by greater number it
was claimed that she was by a son
of Messenger, but what son we
are not informed. Either is quite
probable, but neither can be as
serted positively.
The parent2ge thus given, both
the certain and the probable, has
been fully justified in the success
of the Abdallah blood. Its his
tory has been like that of the
great family from which it has
been derived, and differs from it
only as the original quality differ
ed-merely in displaying its high
est excellence and greatest renown.
Wherever the Messenger blood
has been crossed on other strains,
t.has controlled and given char
acter to the whole, the Messenger
swallowing up all the other fami-
lies. Thus we have no Diomed, or
Sir Archy, or Glencoe, or Mar
grave or Leviathan family of trot-
tiers, although the Messenger fam
lily has found some of its most dis
tinguished representatives in each
of these noted. families.
Such has been the success of
the Abdallah blood over all the
other crosses, and over collateral
branches of Messenger descent.
1t has given the Ethan Aliens
their heaviest shove into popular
notice. It has shown it's special
adoption to calling out the great
est eXcellencies of the Mambrino
family. In an Aberdeen it has re-
doubled the famed lustre of the
Star cross so highly esteemed, and
in Huntress, and Messenger Duroc
and Goldsmith Maid, it has shown
that its crowning excellence is en-
bodied in itSelf-that it does best
of all at home, where there is most
of it. Such now appears to be
the high esteem in which old Alb
dailRh is held, that crosses of his
blood ever so remote are eagerly
sought for. So great indeed is
the demand for his stock, that any
animal now living seems to be
worthy of consideration, if it can
trace a line of descent from this
horse. The owner of perhaps the
most distinguished trotting siresin
the State of Kentucky recently
said to the writer that his horse
was like any other, he could get a
poor colt; but breeders don't seem
to think the same now a-days of
Abdallah.
But among those best acquaint-
ed with the subject, it is agreed
that his best sons were, Roe's Alb
dallah Chief and Rysdyk's Ham
bletonian. The latter has ac-
quired a renown never surpassed
by any stallion; but there are
many of the most intelligent
breeders, and some of them
staunch friends of Hambletonian
who regard him as second to the
Abdallah Chief We here venture
the opinion, that each, in his own
place surpassed the other; Ham
bletoniah as the sire of trotters
and trotting sires, and Abdallah
Chief as the sire of brood mares,
and the great transmitter of the
marvellous blood of old Abdallah.
We have a theory that HANDLE
tonian owes his superiority as a
sire to certain qualities which will
also distinguish many of his sons,
but will not give renown to any OF
his daughters. The Charles Kent
Mare, from old Bellfounder, de-
rived a coarseness of blood and
conformation foreign to the thor
oughbred not possessed by old
One Eye, her highly-bred Messen-
ger dam. She imported this
coarseness of blood and conforma-
ton to her son. The immense
and powerful machinery lodged in
the hind legs and quarters Of
HambletoAian, is a far remove
from the thoroughbred. From the
sire comes the outward conforma
} tion and the external characters.
3 tics of the colt; from the highly.
. bred dam comes the bottom, the
stamina, the endurance, and mag
, zeal horsepower that, combined
with the muscular form, gives il
2 speed and carries it to the end o.
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