The New York herald., 1921-06-05
GODOLPHIN ARABIAN
OF THE TROTTERS
All Fast Horses of To-day Are
Inbred to Rysdyk's Ham
bletOnian.
ny Quincy e. CUE.

= The astonishing Information contained
IN the current volume of Wallace's
Year Book that OF the 110 trotters that
entered the 2:l0 list last season every
one was inbred to Rysdyk's Ham'ble-
tonian. many of them having twenty
or more crosses to him. shows that In a
comparatively brief period this wonder
full horse has made place In turf his
tory not unlike that OF the Godolphin
ARABIAN of whom It has been SAID
there Is no thoroughbred runner now
living but traces back to him. The foun-
tain head of racing speed lived two
hundred years ago, while the great
progenitor of trotters made his first sea-
son in the stud just seventy years ago
this spring, and ne was still hale afld
hearty less than half a century back.
Born of mixed parentage which en-
titled him to registration In the stud
book of no recognized breed then IN
existence and gave him more prestige
than any other obscure country stud
horse. his success was achieved by sheer
force of his own merit, which was such
that It, might be said he founded q new
breed of horse and brought into exist
ence a new stud book for his descend
ants. John II. Wallace, the founder of
that stud book, wrote Of him In 1897.
In his last work, 1.-THE Horse of Ameri-
in this or any other country has excited
an interest so universal or represented
such a vast sum of money in his Off
spring and descendants"
Like Kentucky's first trotting sire,
Old Pilot, Hambletonian was horse
of striking individuality and character.
He has been described by a great many
writer's. some Of whom, Wallace among
writer's, some of whom, wallace and
Charles J. Foster among them, called
him coarse. Peter c. Kellogg, who has
left a inmate description Of the stallion,
saids
'In all our experience of horses we
never studied one more closely, because.
from first to last. we never saw one that
we regarded as in all respects his peer.
In the prime Of life Hambletonian was a
deep. rich-colored mahogany bay horse,
15h hands, with black legs, name and
tail, the color on his limbs extending
well above his knees and hooks. His
head was large and bony. with pro-
file Just inclining to the Roman
order. with somewhat deep jowls,
not as widely spread as many would
desire. yet not def1ciently close; eye
very largo and prominent, giving him
the appearance of much greater width
across the forehead than would other
wise have shown. His ears were Of
good size (not as large as some unob-
serving persons have pronounced them),
we'll set and lively. His muZzle was
dark colored and rather broad. rostril
full and expansive. Neck rather short.
little heavy underneath, but clean and
sharp at the crest. His name was very
ornamental, straight-haired and rather
light like that of the blood horse. but
uniform in length and never reaching
the lower line of the neck. His tail was
long and quite full, clear to the ground.
1t appeared to have no short hairs In II.
All reached to his ankles and hung as
straight, black and free from curl as
the war lock Of Mohawk Indian.
His shoulders were fairly oblique,
deep and strong, the upper points of the
blades well apart. giving him a low
broad formation through the top of the
shoulder with next to no withers sway
short and coupling smooth. His hip was
long and Group high, with great length
from hip to hook. Thighs and gaskins
harnessed with the sinewy muscle which
extended we'll down into large, clean.
bony hooks hung near the ground.
He was @ heavy boned horse, with
large we'll formed knees and hooks. The
texture Of his limbs throughout was so
fine, clean and ivory-like that we have
never seen in those of any other animal
as much substance in so bloodlike form.
There Is no long hair at the fetlock
though the shears never touched them;
no gumminess or adipose deposits are
lodged about tho Joints. No sculptor
ever carved from marble or fashioned in
bronze so fine q modelled limb and
foot.
The casual observer might think
for the moment, as he saw him In per-.
foot repose, that he was too massive for
action, but tho instant he moved the
thought was dispelled, for he was all ac-
tion. Taken at a glance. the impress
sive feature of the horse was his i'm
mense substance, without a particle of
coarseness or grossness. No horse we
can recall possesses SO great a volume
of bone with the same apparent texture
and true bloodlike quality.