230 ALIIAMBRA AND MESSKNGER DUROC. 



ThircT dam, Lyon Mare, by Bertholf Horse. 



Fourth dam by Duroc, son of imp. Diomed 

 Hambletouian, by Abdallah. 



First dam, Charles Kent Mare, by imp. BjUfounder. 



Second dam, One Eye, by Bishop's Hambletonian. 



Third dam, Silvertail, by imp. Messenger. 

 Abdallah, by Mambrino, son of imp. Messenger. 



Dam, Amazonia, by son of imp. Messenger. 

 Hambletonian (Bishop's), by imp. Messenger. 



First dam, Pheasant, by imp. Shark. 



Second dam by imp. Medley. 

 Abdallah Chief (Roe's), by Abdallah, son of Mambrino. 



First dam by Phillips, son of Duroc. 



Second dam by Decatur, thoroughbred son of Henry. 

 Whistle Jacket, by Mambrino, son of imp. Messenger. 



First dam by American Eclipse. 



Second dam by Bertholf Horse. 

 Bertholf Horse, by imp. Messenger. 



The striking feature of this pedigree, as has been remarked tnanj 

 times, is the great number of times it runs to Messenger and Duroc, 

 the two horses from which he takes his name. The dam of Decatur 

 was by American Eclipse, a son of Duroc, his second dam was by 

 ]3uroc — which, with the other Hnes, makes his blood run to Messenger 

 seven times, including two to Abdallah, five times to Duroc, and 

 once to Bellfounder. This is truly remarkable breeding — remarkaljle 

 for the many excellences it embraces, as well as for the defects that 

 it re-unites and so often blends with the great qualities of the combi- 

 nation. With such a combination, he should be a trotter and a sire 

 of trotters, for no pedigree can be found in all the annals of breeding 

 that embraces thirteen crosses of such trotting strains as those of 

 Messenger, Bellfounder and Duroc, almost unmixed with any other 

 elements; and when we look to the external form, the conformation 

 of part with part, as shown in his measurements, it will be seen that 

 he has the trotting measurement in a degree unsurpassed by any. 



I have before said the Bellfounder blood is present in him, and 

 shows much of its richness and lustre. These are the crosses in which 

 it always excels. It is not easy to efface it entirely, although in hinx 

 it is greatly over-matched. That of Abdallah and Messenger is in 

 chief control, and in his subsequent crosses in and out will most likely 

 assert a supremacy, as that is the known character of this blood, and 

 in addition, in our trotters as now bred, it is more likely to be rein- 

 forced than to find new forces of the Duroc element. It would seenx 

 he had about all that could be found in this country already. 



