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in the pedigrees of many trotters and is very highly prized to- 

 this day. In the latter part of his life he was owned by Jacob 

 Husted, of Washington Hollow, New York, and made several 

 seasons there. His sight failed entirely as he grew old, and he 

 died about 1835. With two such performers from his own loins 

 as Paul Pry and the Tredwell mare, it cannot be doubted that 

 he inherited and transmitted the true Messenger "trotting in- 

 stinct/' and that without any assistance from the blood of hia 

 ojam. 



PLATO was a large brown horse, fully sixteen hands high, and 

 was a full brother to Bishop's Hambletouian, being by Messen- 

 ger, out of Pheasant. He was bred by General Coles, of Long 

 Island, and was foaled 1802. As he matured the general judg- 

 ment was that bis limbs were too light for his body, and this is 

 the only instance that I can recall where the get of Messenger 

 failed at this vital point. He was trained and ran a few races, 

 and from a trial with Miller's Damsel General Coles said he was the 

 best horse that ever ran against that famous mare. In a race 

 against his half-brother, Sir Solomon, he won the first heat of 

 four miles and broke down in the second, which finished him as 

 a race horse. He was a larger and a handsomer horse than his 

 full brother Hambletonian, but at no other point was he so good. 

 When they stood in the same stable he was advertised at a lower 

 price. He was a number of years in the stud on Long Island, 

 New Jersey, and the river counties of New York, and after 181& 

 at Pine Plains there is no further trace of him. In his physical 

 structure and doubtless, in his mental structure also, he took after 

 his dam, and the only link now recalled coupling him with the 

 trotter is the fact that he was the sire of the dam of Lewis' Engi- 

 neer, that was the sire of the great Lady Suffolk. 



DOVER MESSENGER was a grey horse, and was got by imported 

 Messenger, but the blood of his dam and the year he was foaled 

 are unknown. He was kept several seasons at South Dover, 

 Dutchess County, New York, and left a very valuable progeny 

 strongly endowed with the instinct to trot. He was taken to- 

 the town of Russia, in Herkimer County, where he died. There 

 was a younger horse bearing practically the same name, a son of 

 Mambrino Paymaster, with which this horse has often been con- 

 founded. 



CORIANDER. This son of Messenger was a bay horse, about 

 fifteen and a half hands high; was foaled in Queens County, New 



