362 THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



produced Wamock's Highland Messenger, that was taken to Ken- 

 tucky, and was a valuable element in the road-horse blood of that 

 State. Edwin Forrest was bred by Barnes Davis, Oneida, Madison 

 County; owned two years by H. L. Barker, of Clinton, New 

 York, sold to Marcus Downing, of Kentucky, by him to Wood- 

 burn Farm, and after a time he passed to a company at Keokuk, 

 Iowa, and then to George W. Ferguson, of Marshalltown, Iowa, 

 where he was burned up in 1874. 



It has been said this horse was a pacer and converted to a trot- 

 ter, but this does not seem to be sustained by the facts. He was 

 shown as a three-year-old at the Oneida County Fair, and he was 

 then a square natural trotter and was considered very fast, for 

 he was fully able to distance all the other colts of his age. The 

 story of his being a pacer probably grew out of the fact that 

 there was a strong pacing strain in the family, as the original 

 Kentucky Hunter was undoubtedly a pacer. Many of the Ken- 

 tucky Hunters were speedy travelers and a few of them were 

 fast. Black River Messenger was a horse of very wide local 

 reputation for the superiority of his progeny as rapid travelers. 

 The union of the Messenger blood with pacing blood produced 

 excellent results in this, as well as in thousands of other cases. 

 As was the common usage before the establishment of the "Trot- 

 ting Register," this horse was advertised with two fictitious crosses 

 added to his pedigree his grandam was given as by Duroc, and 

 his great-grandam as by imported Messenger. Only two from 

 his loins were able to enter the 2:30 list; six of his sons got seven 

 performers and twelve of his daughters produced fifteen trotters. 



SKENA^DOAH (afterward called Kentucky Hunter) was a bay 

 horse, foaled 1854, got by Brokenlegged Hunter, son of the orig- 

 inal Kentucky Hunter; dam not clearly established. He was 

 bred by Mr. Sykes, near Canastota, and passed through several 

 hands to Henry Dewey, of Morrisville, New York, who trotted 

 him in a number of races in Central New York and then took 

 him to California, where he was kept in the stud a number of 

 years under the name of Kentucky Hunter, and died there 1871. 

 He got one trotter; one son that left two performers and seven 

 daughters that left nine performers. 



DREW HORSE, commonly called "Old Drew," was a brown bay 

 horse, foaled 1842, and was about fifteen and one-quarter hands 

 high and well-formed. He was bred, or rather raised, by Hiram 



