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the world. True, these famous movers are descended on the other side 

 in direct line from Hambletonian, but this fact does not detract from the 

 great value of the Pilot blood when used in such mighty combination. 



GRAND BASHAW, 



a Barb of the purest lineage, was imported from Tripoli in 1820, and 

 died in Pennsylvania in 1845. His color was black, with small white 

 star, and he was said to be of very great beauty. In 1821 he produced 

 Young Bashaw from Pearl, by Bond's First Consul, out of a mare by 

 Imp. Messenger and through this son has come the credit to Grand 

 Bashaw as an original source of trotting blood. In view of the fact that 

 the grand dam of Young Bashaw was by Imp. Messenger, and the further 

 fact that Young Bashaw was a coarse-looking gray horse, in many re- 

 spects resembling the Messenger strain, it has been claimed that the 

 Bashaws and their noted descendants the Clays are really nothing but 

 branches of the great Messenger stem, and that, therefore, the claims of 

 Grand Bashaw are naught, and his name, assumed by the family, an 

 usurpation of Messenger right. 



In part, at least, this may be considered sound reasoning ; but we 

 think it more just to admit that the blood of the imperial Barb, Grand 

 Bashaw, was the one element needed in combination to develop the 

 strain of trotters that bears his name. 



Last on the list, but by no means least in importance, stands old 



JUSTIN MORGAN, 



a clear, bright bay, foaled in 1793 near Springfield, Mass.; died near 

 Chelsea, Vt., in 1821. His parentage cannot be definitely ascertained, 

 but from the best circumstantial evidence it would appear that his sire 

 was a horse called True Briton, or Beautiful Bay, and in all probability 

 a Thoroughbred. His dam was said to be "of the "Wildair" breed, and 

 to have a share, be it more or less, of the blood of the Lindsey Arabian 

 in her veins. There is some reason, also, for the belief in certain quar- 

 ters that he had a trace of Canadian blood in his make-up ; although 

 the remarkable impressiveness of Morgan and his descendants in matters 

 of color, form, gait and disposition mark a predominance of Oriental, 

 rather than Canadian blood. Justin Morgan left several sons, only three 

 of which occupy places of any real importance Bulrush, Woodburyand 

 Sherman. Through Sherman the best of the three sons of old Morgan 

 we have Vermont Black Hawk, and, passing down the list, General 

 Knox, Ethan Allen and Daniel Lambert ; through Bulrush we have the 

 Merrills ; and through Woodbury, Hale's Green Mountain Morgan, 

 Magna Charta and (probably) Gold Dust. 



From this short summary of the horses classed as sources of trotting 

 blood, we may pass to brief mention of a few of the numerous strains or 



