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along, as if she had no gait at all, and was capable of none. 

 But when she squares away, and begins to deliver the real 

 stroke, she has as fine and even a trot as any horse in the 

 world. Her gait, in the rushes of lightning-speed when 

 she darts up the stretch, is as square as ever was seen. It 

 would be impossible for her to go as fast as she does if there 

 was any hitch about her then. Ethan Allen goes right out 

 of his tracks in a square trot from the beginning, and very 

 few can head him for half a mile. Ned Forrest and Daniel 

 D. Tompkins, the two that trotted at Philadelphia for $5,000 

 a side, went square from the walk like Ethan. That match 

 was three-mile heats, to go as they pleased, on the Hunt- 

 ing-park Course, at Philadelphia, in 1838. General Cad- 

 walladcr owned Ned Forrest, a black horse of unknown 

 pedigree. Mr. Walton owned Daniel D. Tompkins, and 

 George Youngs rode him. He came from Massachusetts, 

 and was of the Maine, or Bush-Messenger, blood. That 

 Bush Messenger was one of the last colts that old Messen- 

 ger got, if not the very last. James Hammil rode the 

 black horse ; but Daniel D. won the first heat in such style 

 that General Cadwallader sold out his chance in the race 

 for five hundred dollars. Anderson & Spicer, of New York, 

 bought it, and put Forrest in harness. Spicer got in and 

 drove him, but the other won it without any trouble. 

 Daniel D. Tompkins was brought from Massachusetts to 

 New York in 1834. I handled him then. He was a good 

 little horse, a chestnut, under fifteen hands, with pluck 

 enough for the biggest that ever trotted. 



This Bush, or Maine-Messenger, line was another very 

 good ramification of the Messenger blood, and of great 

 value to Maine and Massachusetts. The horse got a large 

 number of fine trotters and some first-rate ones. The 

 latter were nearly all chestnuts. I mentioned this fact to 

 the friend who sometimes comes here to " talk horse " with 

 me ; and says he, " Now here's a glorious confirmation of 

 the old maxim, ' Like produces like, or the likeness of some 



