Lithograph print commemorating Lady Thorn, a famous harness-racehorse
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Title
Lithograph print commemorating Lady Thorn, a famous harness-racehorse
Description
The Celebrated Trotting Mare Lady Thorn, Formerly "Maid of Ashland."
Lady Thorn, is a bay mare, 16 hands and 1 inch high, raised by Col Wm Dunlap, of Kentucky. She was got by the Famous Horse Mambrino Chief out of a thoroughbred mare : By Gano (who was by American Eclipse,) Grandam by Potomac, Gr. Grandam by Imp. Messenger, she has therefore three crosses of the Messenger blood as Follows, on the male side : Mambrino Chief, Mambrino Paymaster, Mambrino Messenger, on her Dams side the Gano Mare, Gano, American Exlipse, Miller's Damsel, Messenger, the Gano Mare's Dam : The Potomac Mare, The Messenger Mare. Messenger.
Best Time in Harness 2:18 1/4, to Wagon 2:24.
Lady Thorn, is a bay mare, 16 hands and 1 inch high, raised by Col Wm Dunlap, of Kentucky. She was got by the Famous Horse Mambrino Chief out of a thoroughbred mare : By Gano (who was by American Eclipse,) Grandam by Potomac, Gr. Grandam by Imp. Messenger, she has therefore three crosses of the Messenger blood as Follows, on the male side : Mambrino Chief, Mambrino Paymaster, Mambrino Messenger, on her Dams side the Gano Mare, Gano, American Exlipse, Miller's Damsel, Messenger, the Gano Mare's Dam : The Potomac Mare, The Messenger Mare. Messenger.
Best Time in Harness 2:18 1/4, to Wagon 2:24.
Creator
John Cameron
Publisher
Lith. & Pub'd by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St. New York.
Date
1866
Contributor
The Old Print Shop, New York City
Identifier
http://oldprintshop.com/product/19722?inventoryno=11061&itemno=2
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Two-color lithograph with handcoloring
Physical Dimensions
16 11/16 x 26 1/8"
Files
Citation
John Cameron, “Lithograph print commemorating Lady Thorn, a famous harness-racehorse,” Materiality and Spectacle in Nineteenth Century United States 2017, accessed December 1, 2025, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality/items/show/62.