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several years in Union County, New Jersey. He seems to have 

 labored under the disadvantage of having a greater horse of the 

 same name Badger's Sir Solomon by Tickle Toby in competi- 

 tion with him, and thus the son of Tickle Toby would steal many 

 & chaplet from the brow of his namesake, the son of Messenger. 



OGDEX MESSENGER was a grey horse, foaled 1806, got by im- 

 ported Messenger; dam Katy Fisher, by imported Highflyer; 

 grandam a mare imported by H. X. Cruger in 1786, by Cottager; 

 great-grandam by Trentham; great-great-gran dam by Henricus; 

 great-great-great-grandam by Eegulus. The pedigree of this 

 dam is correct, and she was doubtless entitled to rank as thor- 

 oughbred. This horse was bred by Mr. Cruger, and at three 

 years old was sold to David Ogden, and that summer he was pas- 

 tured on the farm of Major William Jones, of Long Island, from 

 whose books we have the foregoing facts. Mr. David W. Jones 

 remarks: ''I retain a perfect recollection of him. He was at 

 that time a large overgrown colt, not particularly ugly nor ex- 

 ceedingly coarse, but having no special beauty nor finish. I can- 

 not better describe him than to say he was a coarse pattern of a 

 fine horse, with marked traits of his lineage." Mr. Jones evi- 

 dently saw him at his worst age and before he fully reached his 

 maturity. 



Judge Odgen, his owner, was a large landholder in St. Law- 

 rence County, New York, and in the spring of 1810 he removed 

 from New Jersey to an island of eight hundred acres in the St. 

 Lawrence river, opposite the village of Haddington, and took the 

 horse, then four years old, with him. It is not known that he 

 ever ran a race for money, and it is not probable he ever did, for 

 it was his owner's aim and object to improve the stock of the 

 country as well as his own, in which he was successful. After 

 five or six years he was taken to Lowville in Lewis County, and 

 made several seasons there in charge of Charles Bush, and from 

 this fact he came to be known there, locally, as Bush Messenger. 

 Thus it happened that there were two SODS of imported Messen- 

 ger in the State of New York at the same time, and both known 

 as Bush Messenger, and to these we might add a grandson and a 

 great-grandson in the State of Maine, and at later date both 

 named "Bush Messenger." It was at one time supposed that 

 Mr. Ogden's horse while at Lowville became the sire of the 

 famous Tippoo of Canada that became the head of a very valua- 

 ble tribe of ti otters and pacers, but later developments showed 



