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and Hamiltonian, the latter named in honor of Alexander Hainiltoii, 

 but the name was in later years changed to Hambletonian. The 

 former was athoroughbred, and the latter was claimed to be such, ])ut 

 the pedigree has been doubted and is questionable. Mambrino was a 

 large and very coarse horse for a thoroughbred, and was pronounced a 

 natural trotter in his day. He produced Abdallah, the king of trotting 

 stallions, of whom a more particular account will be given in the 

 chapter on Hambletonian. He also produced Alraack, the founder of 

 the Champion family. 



Hambletonian, son of Messenger, produced the early trotters Whale- 

 bone and Sir Peter, and the great trotting sires, Harris' Hambletonian 

 and Judson's Hambletonian, from the latter of which came Andrus' 

 Hambletonian, the sire of Princess. He stands as the paternal head 

 of one of the greatest of our trotting families. 



Engineer, another son, left us the sire of Lady Suffolk, and Tippoo 

 Saib gave us the sire of the- famous Dutchman, whose three-mile per- 

 formance stood unequaled for thirty years, and was then beaten by 

 Huntress, daughter of Volunteer, a deeply in-bred descendant of Mes- 

 senger. 



Through Commander, another son, came the line of blood that gave 

 us Screwdriver, Screws, Bull Calf, and other trotters of the early day. 

 From Winthrop Messenger came chiefly the trotting stock of that 

 name so celebrated in the State of Maine. 



From Saratoga came the in-bred grandson. Dove, one of the truest 

 of the Messengers in all that marks them as a family, and from him 

 came, as I think the evidences show, the celebrated Amazonia, the 

 dam of the incomparable Abdallah. Mount Holly, another son, gave 

 us Paul Pry, one of the early trotting celebrities. Coriander, 

 another son, gave us old Top Gallant, the most celebrated of the early 

 day trotters. Ogden's Messenger, a thoroughbred, laid the founda- 

 tion of more than one great trotting family. 



It is not com2:)atible with the limits of this sketch, for me to enumer- 

 ate all the distinguished animals that have been numbered among the 

 descendants of Messenger. Many other families have been brought 

 into notice and been accredited as entitled to some distinction from 

 the fortunate circumstance of having in the composition of some 

 noted member a cross of Messenger blood. 



Trustee gained reputation by the performance of a son trotting 

 twenty miles within an hour, but the dam of the trotter was a daughter 

 of "SVinthrop Messenger. 



