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e^ anomaly in breeding', but there is no other way of accounting for 

 it, and tliis h\']")othesis is within the known and probable facts. 



An animal thus bred from two diverse elements would, not breed out 

 his distinctive qualities alike. Some of his offspring would go back 

 tpward the racerhorse type; the coach-horse qualities would be stronger 

 in. some than in others, and this unequal manifestation would raark hi* 

 descendants, and the history of the family proves this to be true, 

 Mambrino was more of a coach horse than Engineer, his own sire, and 

 Messenger transmitted that quality still more powerfully but unequally 

 to his own offsj^ring. Mambrino, Hambletonian, Dove and Ab4allah 

 ranked together as the representatives of one class, while Potomac^ 

 Tippoo Saib, Sir Solomon, Miller's Damsel and Fair Rachel repre- 

 sented the racing class. 



If it be said that this theory has no parallel in breeding, I point 

 to the case of the little black pacer, Pilot. He might be called a low^^ 

 bred hor^e in some respects, although he came from good blood in the 

 remote jiast. He was less than fifteen hands high, but could pace Bk 

 mile in 2:26, carrying one hundred and sixty pounds on his back. 

 Crossed with a mare that had two crosses of fine blood and fifteen hands 

 high, he produced Pilot Jr., a horse of great substance and strength, 

 and two inches taller than either sire or dam, and he from a mare not 

 over fifteen hands and two inches high produced Woodburn Pilot, a 

 great coarse, heavy-boned trotter of the coach-horse or Sampson 

 class, sixteen and a half hands high and of immense bone and 

 strength. 



Such is the effect of an outcross when there is a union of two 

 bloods that assimilate and blend harmoniously in the union. In the 

 (Jam of Mambrino, the warm blood of the dam of Sampson Avould 

 receive a further* reinforcement and further refinement, but the pure 

 strains from the Godolphin Arabian could not efface the coach-horse 

 instincts or the coach-horse bone and powerful conformation already 

 implanted in the stock. 



When we come to the dam of Messenger she was a mare " pure as 

 milk," to use the phrase of an Arab — having two near crosses of the 

 Godolphin Arabian, and deeply in-bred in the pure blood of the desert 

 - — ^but for all that, the impress of the coach horse could not be effaced. 

 His quality of blood was too positive and his impressiveness as a siie 

 •was too great to yield to all the blood of Arabia. 



Inasmuch as we know that there were in England, in the immediate 

 district where Sampson was bred and sj^ent his days, a race of roc^d 



