152 State Board of Agkicultuuk, &c. 



The same mav be said of Kentucky, Ohio, and othei-s of 

 the AYestern States, only tliat their comparatively level sur- 

 faces gave opportunity, in addition, to another type of sad- 

 dle horse, to wit : the single footer or racker. "Witli the 

 opportunity, tlie demand ; with the demand, man's intelli- 

 gence ; and hence the race of Kentucky pacers, knowii all 

 over the West, and eagerly sought for for long horse-l)ack 

 journeys, as they are fine sized, good couraged, strong in the 

 back and (piarter, of great endurance, and can carry a man 

 far in a day. and with comparative ease. It is from tliis 

 blood, in part, Pocahontas being an illustrious type, whence 

 ■como tliose remarkable trotters of the West: Smusffler, 

 Graf ton, Mambnno Patchen, Mambrino Bertie, Blackwood, 

 juid the Golddust stock. 



As roads became good, and towns grew up, and business 

 men desired wagon horses, by judicious crossing and train- 

 ing the pacer has emerged a trotter of most wonderful 

 ■i^'apacity. 



Again, the long stage lines of New York State demanded 

 teams to do their work in from ten to twelve miles an liour, 

 iind lo ! those w^onderful silver-gray Messenger teams, of 

 the Slierwood lines. 



A writer in Wallace's Monthly^ speaking of Bush Mes- 

 senger, says : " The glory of his life and memory is in the 

 great number of incomparable stage horses with which he 

 ?ind his sons and grandsons supplied the great route from 

 Albany to Buifalo.^' 



There were, doubtless, other sons of Messenger that con- 

 tributed, more or less, to these magnificent teams, but Bush 



