MESSENGER AND HIS ANCESTORS. 213 



MAMBRINO, the son of Engineer, was a great strong-boned grey 

 horse, bred by John Atkinson near Leeds in Yorkshire, and was 

 foaled 1768. His dam was by Cade, son of the Godolphin 

 Arabian; g. d. by Bolton Little John; g. g. d. Favorite by a 

 son of Bald Galloway, etc. The Cade mare produced Dulcine, a 

 a noted performer, and the mare Favorite was a distinguished 

 performer herself. The poverty of this pedigree is all on the 

 side of the sire, as will be seen by a brief tabulation. 



(Sampson.... j g 1 ** 6 ' 



f EngiDeer Miner , s dam Yo^ng Greyhound. 



v , . I Mmer S dam> ] D. of Bay Barb. 



Mambrino x ,i~iwu:,. A.-K: 



(1768). (Cade 



Daughter of. 



( Daughter of. 



Godolphin Arabian. 

 Roxana. 



Bolton Little John. 

 Favorite. 



It is worthy of note here, as a curious fact, that Mambrino had 

 two pacing crosses. Roxana, the dam of Cade, was by Bald Gal- 

 loway and Favorite was by a son of Bald Galloway. This horse 

 Bald Galloway was a distinguished representative of the famous 

 old tribe of pacers known as the " Galloways,'' from the province 

 of Galloway in Southwestern Scotland. 



Mambrino was not put upon the turf till he was five years old, 

 and he proved himself a great race horse in the best company 

 and for the largest class of stakes. He was on the turf most of 

 the time for five or six years and until he was beaten by Wood- 

 pecker in 1779, in which race he broke down. He was beaten 

 but four times, and paid four forfeits. He went into the stud in 

 the spring of 1777, although he ran after that, at lOgs. 10s. 6d. 

 to cover thirty mares besides those of his owners. In 1779 he 

 was again in the stud, in Cambridgeshire as before, at the same 

 price; 1781 he covered at 50gs. 10. 6d.; 1784 at 15gs. 10. 6d.;. 

 1785 at 25gs. 10s. 6d.; 1786 he dropped back to logs. 10s. 6d. 



We give these prices to show the variations in the estimated 

 value of his services. As a sire of race horses Mambrino was not 

 successful. Some fifteen or twenty of his progeny ran more or 

 less respectably, but none of them was at all comparable with 

 himself. While he was a comparative failure as a racing sire 

 there was another qualification in which he attained great emi- 

 nence and distinction. In the second volume of Pick's Turf Eeg- 

 ister, published 1805, on page 266, we find the following para- 

 graph appended to the history there given of this horse: 



