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one day held by the friends of Bellfounder, that he was in reality the 

 best and truest representative and embodiment of perfect trotting 

 quality ever seen on our continent. The late recurrence to his blood 

 in the opportunities now being presented to reunite different and long 

 separated lines from him, may yet result in giving it a value in popu- 

 lar estimation far above any that it has heretofore enjoyed. 



After leaving Boston, Bellfounder was kept on Long Island and in 

 Orange and Duchess counties the remainder of his life, and died on 

 Long Island in 1843, having served in this country for about twenty 

 years — the precise period that Messenger survived after his importa- 

 tion. 



A further consideration of the qualities of Bellfounder is reserved 

 for the chapter on Hambletonian, and the chapter on Sayer's Harry 

 Clay. 



DUROC. 



Ik tracing the origin and blood elements that enter into our Ameri- 

 can roadsters, the Duroc cross must not be omitted. While it is not 

 certain — hardly probable — that he had any trotting quality in him- 

 self, he seemed to have had that other qualification, a certain conforma- 

 tion that adapted itself to the trotting gait, and when united with the 

 blood of Messenger the union seemed to display trotting qiiality of 

 the highest order. Its relations to the Messenger blood were some- 

 what similar to that sustained by the Bellfounder cross; and the 

 results, while dissimilar, were entirely analogous. It gave to the 

 Messenger a type and manner of going marked and distinctive, but 

 totally different from that exhibited in the union with the Bellfounder. 



Duroc was a large and powerful chestnut, fifteen hands three inches 

 high, of large bone, very muscular, and possessed of the spirit, cour- 

 age and invincible resolution of a great race-horse. He was bred by 

 Wade Mosby, Esq., of Powhattan county, Virginia, and was foaled 

 June 4, 1806, two years before the death of Messenger. His sire was 

 imported Diomed, a small chestnut horse that was winner of the first 

 Derby in England, and was imported when twenty -two years old, and 

 died at the age of thirty-one, leaving a numerous and distinguished 

 progeny, his blood entering into nearly every great family of race- 

 horses in America. From his sire Duroc derived serious and deeply- 

 seated blood defects and infirmities, besides those traits from which 



