. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 160 ^rxe %xtt&ex and jlptrrtsmarr. Sept. 8 but probably in so speakiDg of the race-horse, the writer meant to be anything but complimentary. Among the progeny of Bishop's Hambletonian the most distinguished on the trotting turf were the famous Whale- bone and another early trotter of less note, Sir Peter. In 1830 and 1831 the former ranked with the best of his day us a long distance trotter, and has to his credit a performance of thirty-two miles in 1:58 05. Daughters of Bishop's Ham bletonian produced Paul Pry and Topgallant, both being by other sons of Me
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 160 ^rxe %xtt&ex and jlptrrtsmarr. Sept. 8 but probably in so speakiDg of the race-horse, the writer meant to be anything but complimentary. Among the progeny of Bishop's Hambletonian the most distinguished on the trotting turf were the famous Whale- bone and another early trotter of less note, Sir Peter. In 1830 and 1831 the former ranked with the best of his day us a long distance trotter, and has to his credit a performance of thirty-two miles in 1:58 05. Daughters of Bishop's Ham bletonian produced Paul Pry and Topgallant, both being by other sons of Messenger, and they were the first trotters of their time. The latter trotted three miles in 8:11 in 1820. The most noted progeuitors of trotters 1< f t by Bishop's Ham- bletonian were his sons Harris* Hambletonian and Judson's Hambletonian. The former sired Green Mountain Maid, 2:28A; Lady Shannon, 2:284; Hero, pacing record *, and others of less note. A son of his sired Joker, 2:22i, aud sis of his daughters have produced trotters. Maj. Edsall, the sire of Robert McGregor, 2:17J, was ont of a daughter of Harris' Hambletonian, as were also Cuyler, Stillson and other sires of note yet living. Judson's Hambletonian was less distinguished than Harris', but hiB blood enters into several lines, the most promjnent being through hiB son Andrns' Hambletonian, the sire of the trotting mare Princess, that, after meeting the best campaigners of her day from the Pacific to the Atlantic, made still more firm her rank in the records as the dam of Happy Medium, one of the greatest trotting sireB the world has yet produced. To bf continued. An illustration of how quickly a horse will perform what he has been taught to do is given in the following paragraph: When the Colorado troops went down to Missouri to meet old Pap Price's army in time of the late war, Captian W. H. Pierce, of Denver, rode a strapping big gray horse, a thorough- bred, a bou of Little Arthur, that had been educated a
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