322 THE HOESE OF AMEEICA. 



bred by Thomas Logan, of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 

 His dam was Pearl, by Bond's First Consul, a famous running 

 horse, his grandam Fancy, by imported Messenger, and his great- 

 grandam by imported Rockingham. This is the pedigree under 

 which he was advertised, but it has never been authenticated in 

 any of its crosses. Judging by the horse himself and his progeny 

 there can hardly be a doubt that there was a Messenger cross in 

 it, but just where cannot be determined. 



He made his first season in Salem, New Jersey, 1826. He was 

 then four years old and by no means handsome or attractive in 

 his form. His head, ear and neck were his worst features; but 

 in addition to these defects he was flat on the ribs and habitually 

 carried his tail to one side. His limbs and feet were as good as 

 ever were made, but his great redeeming quality was his trotting 

 gait. When in Salem he was only a rough, partly developed, 

 four-year-old colt, but he showed then a step and a rate of speed 

 so remarkable as to induce a few to breed to him, notwithstand- 

 ing his ungainly appearance. He did not cover more than a 

 dozen mares that season, and all-told he got eight foals. Out of 

 these eight, seven proved to be superior trotters for that day. 

 Andrew Jackson was the best, but there was another that could 

 go below 2:40. The common remark was, wherever he touched a 

 mare of Messenger blood, there was sure to come a trotter. This 

 was the general rule, but the best hit he ever made, probably, 

 was when he covered Joseph Hancock's black pacing mare and 

 got Andrew Jackson. 



In looking over his blood elements we can see nothing in his 

 pedigree to justify these trotting qualities except the grandam, 

 Fancy, by Messenger. First Consul was a great race horse, but 

 neither he nor his descendants ever evinced a disposition to trot. 

 The horse Rockingham was contemporaneous with Messenger 

 and a constant rival while Messenger was about Philadelphia. 

 He was not wholly running-bred, as he was by Towser, afterward 

 called Counsellor, and out of a hunting mare. As a stock horse 

 he was esteemed as only second to Messenger on the Delaware, 

 where he stood many years. 



The' fame of Young Bashaw did not cease nor die out after the 

 exploits of Andrew Jackson, Black Bashaw, Charlotte Temple, 

 Washington and others from his own loins. The Clays, the 

 Long Island Black Hawks and the Patchens have kept spreading 

 it wider and wider until of late years we find that only the one 



