The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-10

| drove up with his fish wagon got out,
examined the old horse and agreed to
take him away. The journey behind
the tailboard Of the fish wagon was q
long and painful enc to the old horse.
| The first thing Cozine did was to have
Abdallah's feet trimmed. The nextwas
to hitch him to tho wagon to haul t.
load OF fish from the beach. The degra-
dation of harness had never before been
put on the fiery old horse. He stood
| quietly during the process of hitohinv.
| but when he felt the pressure of the bit
he up with his heels and kicked the
wagon into kindling wood. Cozine es-
sayed several times to induce the old
fellow to take kindly to the harness,
but failed. He then put up sedge-
matched old shed on the beach and
turned Abdallah out to fight for a
living. The old horse endured the
summer heat and scanty forage bravely
for awhile. Then nature succumbed
| and one morning in September, 1854,
Abdallah was under his shed stone dead.
standing upright, with his fore feet in
a deep hole that he had dug to get away
from the flies. SO ignobly finished the
sire of the great Hambletonian, the
founder OF the illustrious tribe that
bears his name.
Abdallah was sired by Nam brine and
nio Qhu was "a LDarG
Amazonian. Hambletonian's dam.
called the Charles Kent Mare, was sired
by Imported Bellfounder. Her dam was
Red Eye. In the younger days of Ham
bletonian there were few race tracks
and few men who made the training
and driving of the trotting horse pro-
fession. In those days the trainers and
drivers could be counted by a dozen.
while now they are as thick as bees
around honeycomb. The condition
ing and driving of the trotter is an art
in itself. Some people think that most
anyone with little horse sense can
condition and drive a trotting horse. and
1 have frequently met men who have
stumbled up against some old skate of
q trotter that has been on the turf for
years, and would trot a good race with
the lines tied to his tail, who have
driven the old horse a successful race or
two, that set themselves up as n first
class whip, and know more about hand
ling and driving the trotting horse than
the man who has had twenty-five or
thirty years experience and hard
kno ks at the business. I contend
that it requires as much brains
TO condition, train and drive
trotting horse and develop him sue
cesstully as it does to do any mercantile
puSlucoS, OL any JULIET profession or call
ing. Conditioning is the prime factor
in M ain taing the fortunes of trainer.
1t has been we'll said that almost any
driver of experience can drive the aver
age trotter, if he is in order, but the art
of putting him in shape and keeping
him coming for his races is quite an
other task. Wo often see very prom
Using horse spoiled by some patient
trainer. | am firmly of the opinion,
born of experience. that it is deep
study and requires actual experiences,
to develop trotting horse successfully,
and will speak Of it later.
AS stated. IIambletonian was not
trained on the turf for speed. At one
time it was commended that stations
could not trot fast, and the advocates of
the theory had the best Of the argument
until Ethan Allen and Geo. M. Patchen
raised the banner of defiance and mot
the highest class performers of the day
to harness, wagon and saddle. By q
strange coincidence both of the above
stations and Handle tonian were foaled
in 1S49 and each of them founded
families of trotters. The prolonged
turf career of E than Allen and Geo. M.
Patchen, during which they repeatedly
reduced the fastest stallion record,
which was left at 2:3s by Long Island
Black Hawk in lS47, together with the
death of Patchen soon after his retire
ment to the stud, made their opportuui-
ties far inferior to those enjoyed by
Hambletonian, which was, with the ex-
ception Of 1865, when prevented by sick
ness, performing stud duty from 1851 to
1875. In that time he sired ,33l foals
from which sprang the ail-powerful
family of Eambletonian trotters.
The prominence attained by Ethan
Allen and Geo. NJ. Patchen in about the
year 1853 and 1859, as trotting stations
comes to them by right of inheritance,
as both OF them were descendants of
developed stations and turf monarchs
OF their dav. Ethan Allen was sired
by HIS Vermont Black Hawk, who
was the fountain head of the Black
Hawk family, and Geo. M. Patchen was
sired by Cassins NJ. Clay. His dam was
liead'em. Andrew jackson was son of
Young Bashaw. and he was the founder
OF the Clay family of trotters. He was
foaled in 1928 and was great distance
horse and also great horse to trot TO a
wagon. In 1884 he defeated Sallie Mil
Ter at PHILADELPHIA in race If two
mile heats in 500 and 5:25. and the fol-
lowing year he defeated Sadly Washing
ton and Daniel ID. Tompkns in a two
mile race in $50 and SLY. At that
period all the trottcrs Of note were
owned by Boston, New York and Phila.
delphia, and as New York was tho most
central jackson was sent to the Union
course for stud duty. While there he
was bred to tho famous mares Sally
Miller and Surry. Both mares were
served the same day and the next year
Sally Miller dropped Long Island.
Black Hawk and surry foalded Henry
Clay. two stations that made their sires'