. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXI. No. 6. No. 313 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6,1892. Imported Bellfounder. A few months ago the well-known veterinary surgeon, Morichu, of Orange County, N. Y., favored us with a ery interesting account of the Charles Kent mare, dam of le renowned Rysdyk's Hambletonian. The sire of this no- si mare was the imported Norfolk trotter Bellfounder. Until about fifteen years ago the origin of Bellfounder was at generally known. It was believed by some that he came om Canada. Mr. John H. Wallace, who at that time cher- hed an intense hatr


. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXI. No. 6. No. 313 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6,1892. Imported Bellfounder. A few months ago the well-known veterinary surgeon, Morichu, of Orange County, N. Y., favored us with a ery interesting account of the Charles Kent mare, dam of le renowned Rysdyk's Hambletonian. The sire of this no- si mare was the imported Norfolk trotter Bellfounder. Until about fifteen years ago the origin of Bellfounder was at generally known. It was believed by some that he came om Canada. Mr. John H. Wallace, who at that time cher- hed an intense hatred against everything that savored of the i ioroughbred cross in a trotting pedigree, stated, unhesitat- igly, that he believed Bellfounder was a Canadian, and larged that those who were interested in the horse were apt oitators of Ananias. Mr. Levi S. Gould, who was then a prominent business ian in Boston, with a residence in Melrose, which he still ;cupies, was personally acquainted with some of the gentle- men whose veracity Mr. Wallace questioned, and to him is titled the credit of acquainting the public with all the facts icerning imported Bellfounder's origin. These facts were tained at the expense of considerable time and labor which r. Gould devoted to the cause, with no hope of remunera- m other than the satisfaction of laying the whole truth in to the horse before the public, and removing the stigma ich Mr. Wallace, in order to carry his point, was willing fasten upon the characters of gentlemen long since dead, who were held in high esteem by those intimately ac- .inted with them while living. From the facts obtained by Mr. Gould it appears that im- ted Bellfounder was a smoothly turned, round-barrelled, ivy quartered bay horse, bred in the vicinity of Norfolk, , and foaled in 1816. He was purchased in the lo- lity where he was bred by Mr. James Boott, then of Boston, lo sent him to this country in the ship Rasselas, Capt, jskson, which landed the horse at Bos


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