Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: after Hambletonian, 19th century American stallion from which this strain has descended
: a strain of American trotting horses
* * *
/ham'beuhl toh"nee euhn/, n.
1. one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
2. an annual harness race for three-year-old trotters, formerly held at Goshen, New York, now at DuQuoin, Illinois.
[1855-60; Amer.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.