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ponderating share of Messenger blood. Such a mare would have pro- 

 duced a son with a preponderating share of Messenger characteristics, 

 one that was coarser in his outline and heavier in bone, with more of 

 the positive peculiarities of the Abdallah cross. Moreover, she could 

 not have been a mare entirely lacking in or destitute of Messenger 

 blood. No mare without a fair admixture of the blood of Messenger, 

 well blending with that of Duroc or other thoroughbred crosses, could 

 have reached, drawn out and preserved the commingled strains of Mes- 

 senger and Bellfounder in Hambletonian, and presented each of the 

 same so perfect and so much in harmony one with the other. This could 

 scarcely have been accomplished without some element of this magical 

 and powerful Messenger blood, the one great peculiarity of which is 

 its ready ability to fuse with any and all bloods, and to draw out and 

 present ready for use all the good qualities of any other element with 

 which it may be combined. But above all, the dam of Volunteer 

 could not have been a low-bred animal. That is so apparent as to 

 require no demonstration. That slender neck, those blood-like limbs, 

 and that general form so near the type of thoroughbred, could not have 

 <;ome from any but a mare nearly thoroughbred, and of great and 

 passing positiveness in her blood characteristics — one of marked dis- 

 tinctive individuality. 



The dam of Volunteer was a bay mare, foaled May 1, 1850, and 

 lived until July, 1876. She produced this distinguished stallion on 

 the dav she was four vears old. The followino- is the record of her 

 produce: 



1854 — b. c. Volunteer by Hambletonian. 



1855— b. c. Hetzel's Hambletonian by Hambletonian. 



1857 — b. f. (dead) by Hambletonian. 



1860 — b. c. Green's Hambletonian by Hambletonian. 



1863 — br. f. Heroine by Hambletonian. 



1863 — b. c. Sentinel by Hambletonian. 



1864— b. c. (dead) by Ashland. 



1866— ch. f. Evelina by Ashland. 



1867 — ch. c. Barbecue by Surplus. 



1868 — b. c. Barbarian by Surplus. 



1869— b. c. Crusader by Mambrunello. 



1870— b. f. Thorndale Belle by Thorndale. 



1871 — ch. c. Sharpshooter by Thorndale. 



1872 — b. c. Marksman by Thorndale. 



1873— b. c. Patriot by Thorndale. 



Of the above number the reader does not require to be reminded 

 of the stallion Sentinel, that went to Kentucky and died there from 



