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tial points of form and temper of the Beilfounder trotter. There has 

 never been any difficulty in crossing- the Messenger blood u])on other 

 thoroughbred stock. Messenger's ricliest qualities were displa^-ed in 

 the readiness -v^nth which he imparted his great and controlling char- 

 acteristics alike to the produce of the best road stock and the highest 

 type of the thoroughbred. In American Eclipse, Medoc, Monmouth 

 Eclipse and Post Boy we have his highest excellence and greatest 

 superiority manifested in combination with the blood of Duroc and 

 Expedition. 



But the Beilfounder and the thoroughbred or racing families, in 

 blood, form and temper, were not calculated to blend or cross well 

 together. Nevertheless, in Volunteer the union has been comj^lete. 

 Volunteer has the massive Beilfounder shoulder, long body, round 

 barrel and heavy quarters of Hambletonian in proportion and at every 

 part. His back is a little shorter, as his shoulder is a little more slop- 

 ing. His shoulder is heavy and extends forward, as it does in no 

 other except Hambletonian. His rump, like Hambletonian's, is one 

 inch higher than his withers, and in his measxxrement from hip to stifle, 

 and from each to the root of the tail, he is very much like his sire, 

 but not quite so large. The lines H^ G^ F, respectively as follows: 

 JI — 17, G — 27, F — 22, show his comparative size in that quartei'. 

 He stands 03 inches at the withers, and 64 at the rump. His length 

 of body, as compared with other Hambletonians, is as follows: He is 

 •67 inches in length, while Aberdeen is (Sq^ Wilkins Micawber 65, Jay 

 Oould 64, Thorndale 66, Electioneer 64, Ellwood6T, Messenger Duroc 

 C7, Everett 64. Hopeful, a long-appearing horse, is 64; Orient 62, 

 and Sensation is 61. Volunteer's back is 28 inches, his neck is 36, 

 and his windpipe 20, showing a neck, above and below, 4 inches 

 ioncer than his sire's. His girth at the throttle is 33 inches. His 

 neck, the long, slender and gracefully-curved neck of the thorough- 

 bred; a full, flowing mane, foretop and tail; a large horse, weighing 

 1,200 lbs., on short but very fine and blood-like limbs, as fine as Sir 

 Arehy or Eclipse ever bore; feet not large, but good size, spreading 

 from the coronet downward, and open at the heel — an outline which 

 gives some idea of the two blood forces that have so quietly and so 

 liarmoiliously blended in his outward conformation. In the head and 

 face, however — in the brain he carries, and in the nerve power he 

 displays — are found the chief qualities that stamp character on the 

 horse. His head is unlike that of Hambletonian, and not similar to 

 the idea we have of Beilfounder. His face and broad forehead are 



