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ancestor!' The Gray Messengers take after Mambrino, 

 old Messenger's sire ; these chestnut-Bush Messengers take 

 after Blaze and Flying Childers, the sire and grandsire of 

 Sampson, who got Engineer, Mambrino's sire. Now, here 

 you see, Hiram, is a proof." 



" Stop ! " says I. " What you say is all very fine ; but I 

 think it just as likely that the Bush Messenger's dam 

 was a chestnut, as that his colts were thrown back to 

 Flying Childers." 



The Bush Messenger, besides Daniel D. Tompkins, got 

 Gen. Taylor, a very famous trotter and sticker : he was 

 also a chestnut. Henry was another of the tribe, and the 

 same. Independence another, and a chestnut. And Fanny 

 Pullen another of the same color. She had Trustee, the 

 twenty-miler, by imported Trustee ; and he was also a chest- 

 nut horse. Considering the good blood he inherited on 

 both sides, it is no great wonder that he was a horse of 

 such bottom and endurance. The Eaton horse, in Maine, 

 is a near descendant of the Bush Messenger ; and he has 

 kept up that line of trotters. Shepherd F. Knapp is one 

 of his colts. While Maine had the Bush Messenger, 

 Vermont got the blood of the old imported horse through 

 Hambletonian, who was really a grandson of his. 

 This horse got as good trotters as the Bush Messenger. 

 He was the sire of True John, Green-Mountain Maid, 

 Gray Vermont, and Sontag, all first-rate horses. So it is 

 clear, that besides the lines through Mambrino and Abdal- 

 lah, and through Mambrino, Mambrino Paymaster, and 

 Mambrino Chief, which diffused the blood of Messenger 

 over Long Island, through New- York State at large, and 

 in the blue-grass regions of Kentucky, there are to be 

 taken into account those of the Bush Messenger and Ham- 

 bletonian, who carried the strain into the Eastern States. 



It is curious to estimate the influence of one horse, 

 especially if he lives to a great age, gets stallions that 

 become noted, and stock distinguished for fine constitution 



