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DTJKE OF BRtnsrSWICK. 



This is a bay stallion, foaled 1864. He was bred by Harrison Dur- 

 kee, Esq., of New York, and was by Hambletonian, dam Madam 

 Loonier, by Warrior, son of Young Messenger, by Winthrop Messen- 

 ger, by imported Messenger. 



He is owned by Geo. M. Jewett, Esq., of Zanesville, Ohio. He is 

 fifteen hands two inches high, and has a star in his forehead. He is a 

 very evenly proportioned horse, legs somewhat round but very clean 

 and well muscled. While he was owned by Mr. Durkee, he was 

 used and driven as a road horse by that gentleman. Soon after going, 

 into the hands of Mr. Jewett, and while he was in service as a 

 stallion at the owner's farm. Fair Oaks, he was taken to the Ohio 

 State Fair, and exhibited in the class of stallions. Never having 

 been trotted in races, he showed some unsteadiness in company, but 

 won the second, fourth and fifth heats in 2:40^, 2:40, and 2:405^, 

 showing good bursts of speed, and, considering his condition, making 

 a very creditable race. 



JNIadam Loomer was another of these veteran road mares that came 

 of Messenger blood, well seasoned by long use for road purposes. 

 What Harris' Hambletonian did for Vermont, Winthrop Messenger 

 did for the State of Maine and his part of New England. The Mes- 

 sengers from the State of Maine have been famous for over half a 

 century. Madam Loomer was herself a very superior mare, and 

 produced Dick Loomer, a trotter that can make it in 2:25. She also 

 produced a young stallion by Blackwood, called Black Prince, which 

 has been sold at a good price to Mr. John Young, of Salt Ijake City, 

 Utah. Her blood, coming, as it does, so directly from that great son 

 •of Messenger, must be regarded as one of the very choicest of strains 

 to cross with the blood of Hambletonian. Her family »■ are distin- 

 guished as having embraced many noted trotters. 



Directly descended from this family is Belle Strickland, 2:26, by 

 the Merrow horse, a grandson of Winthrop Messenger, through With- 

 erell, his son, and Belle's dam was also by Witherell. This same son 

 Witherell produced Belle of Portland, 2:26. State of Maine, an- 

 other son, produced dam of Mambrino Kate, 2:24^, ari^ Logan's Mes- 

 senger, sire of Crown Prince, 2:25. The famous Fanny Pullen, dam 

 of Trustee, the twenty-mile trotter, was a daughtea of Winthrop 

 Messenger. She also produced the stallion Bridge's Emperor, sire 

 of the dam of Aristos. The real excellence of the blood of Messenger 

 coming through this and the other New England branches, is due to the 



