IMPORTED MESSENGER. Ill 



We must all agree that by force of all known principles of breed- 

 ing, she had not. 



Secondly^Was it possible for Blaze, the son of Flying Childers, 

 and grandson of the Darley Arabian, and descended from the purest of 

 blood on his dam's feide, to have produced such a great black coach 

 horse in bone and conformation as Sampson, from a mare so well-bred 

 as was his dam, although her pedigree does not extend beyond four 

 ■crosses in blood known to be pure? 



"We must all agree that by the law that like produces like, he could 

 not; and must therefore conclude that Sampson was not the son of 

 Blaze and grandson of the great Childers. Furthermore, when it be- 

 comes clearly established that Sampson possessed and transmitted to 

 his descendants to remote generations, a trotting instinct, a nerve 

 organism or temperament, that inclined them to trot rather than 

 gallop, the laws of heredity clearly assert that he did not come from 

 Blaze, a son of Flying Childers; for all persons acquainted with the 

 ■character of the English race-horses descended from the pure Arab, 

 know that they possessed no such instincts. What they did not pos- 

 sess they could not transmit. Sampson inherited this quality from his 

 sire, but that sire was not the son of Childers. 



The mystery about his breeding lies in the fact that we are not 

 advised as to the blood quality or character of the alleged cart or 

 coach horse, but have assumed that because he was heavy boned and 

 coarse, he was lacking in good blood, in the face of the most decisive 

 proof that he possessed quality of the most positive character. 



His characteristic points were clearly evident in the composition 

 ■of the horse produced, and his positiveness and impressiveness as a sire 

 are manifest in Sampson and *Mambrino and in Messenger and his 

 ■descendants to this day. He was an outcross, but an outcross is cal- 

 culated to infuse vigor and increased size and hardiness into the 

 offspring, and if it be of two bloods that assimilate, the good and 

 powerful qualities of each are apt to be retained. Such seemed to be 

 the case here. The speed and real fineness of quality in the Arab- 

 English mare were retained and blended with the increased weight of 

 bone and apparent coarseness of carcass in the coach horse ; the 

 nerve force and vital temperament of the fleet courser were also retained 

 and engrafted upon an animal of great physical superiority, endowed 

 with the trotting instincts of the roadster, and what was bred in the 

 blood came out and continues to come out in the bone. It may be 



