| | Mangum Article Cresceus II |
 | | His breeding goes back to Bishop’s Hambletonian who was a “high-caste runner” who died in 1808, and whose name reappears constantly in the pedigrees of the best trotters of the early period, and he was a very successful sire of them in his own right. |
 | | According to historian John Hervey: “Our debt to the Judson horse is a great one, for his son Andrus’s Hambletonian got the ten-mile trotting mare Princess 2:30, she the dam of Happy Medium 400, he the sire of Pilot Medium 1597, and he the sire of Peter the Great 2:07 ¼. |
 | | The Harris horse, known officially as Hambletonian 2, got Green Mountain Maid 2:28 ½ one of the earliest of the New England-bred 2:30 trotters and a mare that repeatedly defeated Flora Temple 2:19 ¾. |
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