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Washington, D. C., in 180.8, when in a sweepstakes he more than 

 distanced the great Sir Archy, by catching him when he had the 

 distemper. His racing career was respectable, but not brilliant, 

 and when that ended it is not known what became of him. 



SLASHER, SHAFTSBURY, HOTSPUR. There was quite a famous 

 brood mare owned somewhere in Jersey called Jenny Duter, or 

 Jenny Oiter, as some authorities have it. She was got by True 

 Briton; dam Quaker Lass by imported Juniper; grandam Molly 

 Pacolet, by imported Pacolet, etc., tracing on six or eight more 

 crosses that are all fudge. This mare was bred to Messenger about 

 1801, and produced Shaftsbury; her daughter by Liberty was bred 

 to him about the same time and produced Slasher, and about the 

 same time her granddaughter by Slender was also bred to him and 

 produced Hotspur. These three sons of Messenger do not seem 

 to have ever been trained, and very little f their history can be 

 traced, except that they were kept as stallions in different parts 

 of New Jersey. It is not known that their blood has had any in- 

 fluence upon the American trotting horse. 



MESSENGER (HCTCHINSON'S). This was a large grey horse, 

 foaled in 1792, and bred by Mathias Hutchinson, of Pennsylvania, 

 near Philadelphia. His dam was by Hunt's Grey Figure, son of 

 imported Figure. He was kept in Monmouth County, New 

 Jersey, 1797, and it is probable that he was often represented as 

 imported Messenger himself. I have no knowledge of this horse 

 or his progeny beyond the mere facts here given. 



MESSENGER (COOPER'S). This son of imported Messenger was 

 generally known as "Cooper's Grey" and sometimes as Ringgold. 

 He was sixteen hands high and was foaled about 1803. He was 

 bred in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and was kept about 

 Philadelphia, on both sides of the Delaware, till 1821, when he 

 was sold by the administrators of Jacob Kirk, and it has been 

 said he was taken to the Wabash by Amos Cooper. He ran some 

 races when he was young, and was a horse of a good deal of local 

 fame. He was liberally patronized in the stud and left valuable 

 progeny. It has been suggested that probably he was the sire of 

 Amazonia, the dam of Abdallah; but as there is nothing to sup- 

 port this suggestion except the mere matter of location, and as 

 all that has ever been claimed for her paternity is that she was 

 by "a son of Messenger," we must not forget that there were 

 plenty of other sons of Messenger in the same locality that might 

 have been her sire. 



