82 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



Darley Arabian 

 Flying Childers 



Blaze 



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Sampson 1 Shales 



Engineer Useful Cub i i 



Driver Scott's 



Mambrino | ghalea 



Messlnger The Fireaways 



ibrii 



Mambrino Hambletonian Silvertail 

 (Bishop's) 



Pretender Achilles 

 Fireaway 



Mambrino Pay- Abdallah One Eye 



master 



Mambrino Chief II 



Chas. Kent mare Bellf ounder 55 



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Hambletonian 10 



With the advent of Messenger, the trotting instinct 

 becomes decidedly more pronounced. The chief feature 

 of his pedigree is that he was not only a Thoroughbred, 

 but dips deep into the fountain sources of that breed. 

 The records are pregnant with the performances of his 

 progeny and also attest to his value as a progenitor of 

 trotting speed, through the get of his sons, and the degree 

 to which their blood permeates the pedigrees of even our 

 most notable of modern trotters. In the catalogue of 

 the International Stock Food Farm, there appears an ex- 

 ceptionally erudite pedigree of Dan Patch 1 : 55|, the 

 champion pacer of the world, and it is shown that he traces 

 forty-three times to Messenger. The first noted per- 

 former of this strain was Topgallant. Paul Pry, a grand- 

 son of Messenger, was ridden by Woodruff 18 miles in a 

 fraction less than 57 minutes. Lady Suffolk began racing 



