The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-11
Worlds Champions Poor sires.

as well as the trotting register and yea"
book.
Worlds Champions Poor Sires.
The fastest trotters have never yet
been produced by the mating of the
fastest of trotting mares with the trot-
ting stations which have made the fast
est records. No horse that has ever
held the worlds champion record for
trotting stations has yet sired a
worlds champion.
The case of Hambletonian demon
strates the fact that inheritance is a
more potent factor than development
in producing speed ability. HANDLE
tonian was never trained for speed. He
was never hitched to a sulky, and he
was never on track but once in his
| life. He was never speeded a mile but
once; when he was three years old he
was driven a mile in 2:4S, hitched to a
wagon.
| Hambletonian was foaled May 5. 1S49,
the property of Jonas Seely of Goshen,
Orange county, n. Y. When but a few
weeks old he was purchased with his
dam by William NJ Rysdyk of the
( neighboring town of Chester, the price
| being $125 for mare and foal. At that
time Mr.. Rysdyk was a poor man and
gave his note for the dam and fOal.
Hambletonian was sired by Abdallah,
| he by Mambrino, he by Imported Mes
senger. Hambletonian's dam was the
| Charles Kent mare. bred by Imported
Bellfounder. Her dam was One Eye
by Bishops HambletOnian, he by I'm
ported Messenger.
| Hambletonian was a deep rich ma
hogany colored bay horse, fifteen and
one-half hands high. with black legs
name and tail. His head was rather
large and bony. with deep jowl and
a large. prominent eye. His nostril
was very large and expansive, neck
rather short but clean: his name and
| foretop were rather sparse. but he had
large flowing tail. His legs had
broad feet and clean, with one white
ankle. He was a heavy boned horse
with we'll formed knees and hooks
No sculptor ever carved from marble
or fashioned i'm bronze a finer modelled
| limb or foot.
Triple Inbred to Messenger.
Hambletonian affords an instance OF
triple inbreeding to the great Messen-
! ger that crossed the Atlantic in 1888
whose name was talisman for trotting
value, yet never SO great as when de-
rived through Rysdyks Hambletonian
HambletOnian was broke when two
years old. He was always exercised or
| the road. At two years of age he was
bred to five mares at a service fee OF
$40
The first mare he ever served was
Katy Darling, who produced the great
sire AleXander's Abdallah, that lives in
history as the sire of Goldsmith Maid
PA. the greatest trotter ever on the
| turf. She was on the turf sixteen years
and trotted 332 heats in 2:30 to 2:14. and
she won 1886 900 i'm matches and purses
At years of age HambletOniar
served thirty mares at a service fee OF
SIS. From three years to five his serv-
ice fee was $25, from five to seven his
service fee was raised to $50. His pro-
geny began to show such speed that
when he was nine years old his fee was
raised to 500. His fee was gradually
raised from 500 till 1862. when his fee
was 5000. In 1864 his service fee haC
reached $500. When his son, Dexter
made his fastest record of 2:17A, Aug
ust, 1867 Hambletonian's service fee
jumped to $500, where it remained unit
his death, March, 1876.
Progeny, 1859.
Mr. Rysdyk was very careful in keep
ing his books. At Hambletonians dealt
| the books showed that during his lif'
of Twenty-Five years as a sire his serv
ice fees amounted to $385.600. That h
| had served 2,065 mares and produced
1853 foals. No parallel is found in tur
history. Mr.. Rysdyk's instructions be
fore his death in May, 1875. were tina
Hambletonian, whc h = always beer
his petted horse, anS|4dd made for
tune for him. should be buried on tn
premises under a large tree in the or
chard. that his remains should not b.
| mutilated In any way. These lnstruc
lions were carefully, tenderly. almos
reverently carried out the day after tn
great sire's death.
For two years before his death tn
horse had been failing. until he becam
but shadow of himself. His nipper
and molars had loosened and he cOul,
not masticate his grain. He was fee
on soft food and nay tea. His faithful
colored groom, Herman Showers, wh'
had cared for the horse for twenty-five
years. left him at 9 O'Clock the night o
March 20. 1876. The horse was thel
standing UP. In the morning at
o'clock he found the horse lifeless ii
his stall. his body yet warm Whel
ne found that the vital spark had gone
he at once folded the lifeiess limbs I,
the grand old body and secured then
| with straps. An appropriate caske
made of cedar was hmm ediately pre-
pared. A grave at the designated plac
i'm the orcharf was ding and lined witt
f! cedar. tt t4sdy of the great sire wa