Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-26

vas largely the result of Arab and En-
Iglish thoroughbred importations and
contained the more important strain
of stamina given by the severe usage
endured by the horses Of that day.
Messenger, a gray stallion and En-
glish thoroughbred racer, imported in
17SS. was the father Of all Americas
great horses He traced his ancestry
to both the barley Arabian and Godol
phin Barb. His produce out of Amer-
can mares above mentioned became
known as the Morgan horses.
The Clay family established by Hen
ry Clay, stallion descended from
Messenger, was the second American
family reproducing a distinct type, and
the third was established by Golddust
la Kentucky horse sired by Vermont
Morgan, Messenger progeny. and out
of a dam half Arab aud half English
Thoroughbred.
The Hambletonians. according to Mr..
Speed, were the biggest fakes ever ex-
perienced in the live stock business. In
the first place the plan of breeding like
to get like without a thought of the
blood has, in Mr.. Speeds opinion. been
standard bred horse has cost America
billions OF dollars. The standard bred,
Mr.. Speed says, turns out about per
cent fast and the other 9S per cent, in
his opinion. have been about worthless.
| But 1t is the real history of the Rys-
| dyk Hambletonian that is the most in
horse-crazy public have gloried in the
royal breeding of the father OF the
standardized horse. II was believed
that Messenger begat Mambrino. and
Mambrino begat Abdallah, and Abdal-
tlah begat Hambletonian.
The truth is" says Mr.. Speed, that
Hambletonian was a bull-like horse
that was trained by Hiram Woodruff,
but could never develop a speed equal
to a mile in three minn;es-3:1s to be
exact. AS to his pedigree, Mambrino,
the grardsire, was by Messenger: but
he was worthless and also vicious. He
lccuid neither run nor trot. He was
bred by Louis Morris. of Westchester
lcounty. New York, and sold to Mayor
William Jones. Of Cold Spring Harbor,
Long Island. AS he was worthless and
a serious disappointment. Mayor Jones
Virtually gave him awav. and he was
o. OF
tfee. John Treadwell, Quaker farmer
near Jamaica. Lond Island, had two
IConestoga. or PENNSYLVANIA Dutch,
ldraft horses. Out of one of these mares,
lby Mambrno,i was born Abdallah. This
horse was so bad tempered that he
could never be broken 20 harness, but
was ridden under the saddle. He had
10 speed either as a runner or trotter,
mot being able TO do mile in four min
utes at any gait. He had II mule-like
head and ears, badly ewed neck, and
|! a rat tail. He was a Messenger, de-
lspite the Conestoga crossing. and he
was sold TO kentuckians for $4,000. In
less than six months the Kentuckians
lrepented of their bargain and sold him
| back to New Workers for $500. This
was in 1S49. No purchaser could the
stallion was virtually given away to
stop expenses of keeping.
About this time Charles Kent
wanted new horse for his butcher
wagon and traded thru Alexander
Campbell of Bulls Head. his worn-out
mare to Edmund Seeley, farmer in
Orange county. New York, for steer
for butchering. This butchers mare
| had originally been sold to him by
Campbell, who had obtained her in
drove of western horses. paying $40
for her Her pedigree was quite un-
known. This mare is known IN Ameri-
can horse history as the Charles Kent
mare. and is said to be by imported
Bellfounder When Rysdyk's HANDLE
tonian's pedigree became a matter of
/ importance to those WAC relied on 1t
| for royal breeding OF their trotuns
stock. Alexander Campbell, of Bulls
Head. was offered $1,000 to certify to
manufactured pedigree of the Kent
1mare. Campbell declined and ordered
the swindlers out of his office.
THE Kent mare was IN foal TO Abb
dallah when Seeley got her, and the
colt became the property of Bill Rys-
/ dyk hired man on Seeley's farm
Rysdyk looked around for name for
his colt--a name which chould indicate
the Messenger blood N him. There
lhad been In the early years of the CEN
tury a famous son of Messenger named
after Alexander Hamilton. This horse
finally became known as Bishops
Hamiltonian In his effort to borrow the
name Rysdyk, being weak in his
photography, called his horse Rysdyk's
Hambletonian. And so he lives in his
tory-false in his pedigree as in his
name.
! sThe public Of that day believed this
horse to be a son of Bishops Hamil-
tonian and for the sake of the Messen-
ger blood he was served to the best
mares in Orange county. and Orange
| county was rich In the Arab and Barb
blood Of the daughters and grand
daughters of the great and unbeatable
Itrotting horse, Andrew Jackson. No
stallion ever had better chance and
lit was almost Impossible that there
should not have been good horses
among his get. And there were. But
the bad blood of his ancestry, sire and
grandsire being worthless degenerates
together with the utterly unmixable
! Conestoga blood In his grand-dam
lhaye been continually cropping out in
his progeny"
Any man having had his experience
with the standard bred horse and the
Influence of it's blood upon the horse
breeds of our western farms will rec
ognize about as accurate a description