Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-02-27

assisted in producing speed and have i'm
parted valuable characteristics for which |
other lines have received the credit, not
ably Chancellor and Hunts Commodore. |
Chancellor sired the gelding by the
same name, which in 1881 trotted thirty
two miles in match that he won in one
hour and fifty-eight minutes, and that
stands today as the fastest record for
that distance. He also took a saddle rec
ord of 2 :4ll, and was one of the famous
trotters of that day. Chancellor sired
the dam of Neave's Cassius NJ. Clay, Jr.,
which was killed at eleven years old on
account of having broken his leg. though
in that short time he established altogeti-
er the most important branch of the Clay
family. Besides Lady Lockwood, 20;
George Cooley, 2:27, and Lew Sayres,
, :2Si, he sired Cora, three years, :314,
Harry Clay. 20, sire of Green Noun
tain Maid, Hattie Wood, Flora, etc.
and also Clay Pilot, sire of The Moor,
, ~; grandSire of Sultan, 2:24; Beauti-
ful Bells, :294, etc, and great grandsire
of STEAMBOAT, , IL, one of the most valu-
able and most popular stations living.
This is far more than has been accom-
pished by all the other branches of the
Clay family.
Hunts Commodore, foaled 1928, is an
other son of Mambiino, is described As Il
rich blood bay with no other white than
star, and IL hands high, of immense
substance and power, horse of noble
presence and unusually fine action.
Commodore sired the dams of Commo-
dore Belmont and Mambrinello, both
popular and successful sires, and also of
Stevens Bald Chief. sire of Overland,
Atlantic Chief and the famous Minneha-
Ia, dam of Beautiful Bells. , :294 Alca-
EAR, POI, sold for S25,S00; Mascot, S26.-
900; Baron Rose, and granddam of Woo
doc. sold for S24, 100. In Il large number
of pedgrees and noted trotters there is a
cross to Hunts Commodore through the
second or third dams.
There are numerous other lines tracing
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ones that are to be taken up in subsequent
articles, but the above is sufficient to
show that Mambrino's right to the title
of trotting progenitor does not rest on
any single and possibly accidental SER
vice to some superior mare, but that Inc
was the positive factor in each of his IA
nous sons and daughters.
As MambrinO was the first sire of trot
tiers, of the dams of trOtters, and of trot
ting sires from winch great trotting fam
lilies have sprung, he may be Justly re
garded as the real fountain-head of oul
American trotter. and the original trot
ting progenitor, for we have no know
ledge that any more remote ancestor eve
sired what we would to-day consider &;
; trOtter. 1t is safe to say that there l.
; now no trotter that would be considered
well bred that had not one or more cross
es to this source.
Another point that has perhaps no
been taken up before is that Mamhrin'
was indebted solely to his dam for hi
rich dark bay color, which is so genera
in his descendants. From Messenger h
: cannot be said to have received an,
: strong Inheritance as regards color, gray
, brown, black, etc, having been bred to
; gether without intensifying either. o.
0 the other hand. Mambrino's own colo
Z, has been transmitted to him pure and in
= tensified from his dam, she having bee
bay. her dam Il bay, imp. Sauerkrout
; bay, imp. Whrligig II bay, Old Slamel
= kin ii bay, imp. Wildair IA bay, the imp
4 Cub Mare bay, and it is fair to presum
\ that this was the prevailing color to yer
4 remote generations. Whenever an
1 characteristic has been inbred it become
so fixed as to be strongly transmitte
e from that source to quite "A number c
Il subsequent generations, and this unque'
y tionably was potent source of HANDLE
;, tonian's inherited and strongly transmi
: ted bay color.
o Mambrino died in 1929, at the age {
IA twenty-three, and though he received n
}, such imposing burial as Messenger, til
o records show that as a trotting progen
/ tor he was truly very long step in az
!. vance.