CHAPTEE XYIII. 



THE ROYAL GEORGES. 



This is a family of great distinction and merit, but one whose 

 derivation is involved in some doubt, and it is a difficult matter to pre- 

 sent their history and composition in a satisfactory manner. They 

 are not one of the oldest families of trotters, yet they are somewhat 

 widely scattered, and having displayed a very creditable degree of 

 speed, and being noted for good size and general soundness, they have 

 many friends in all parts of the country. They originated in Canada, 

 but have been introduced into the United States mainly from the 

 vicinity of Buffalo, and now have representatives in all parts of the 

 land. In color they are blacks, bays and chestnuts, in some branches 

 mostly blacks, but in some recent families many chestnuts are 

 appearing. 



The paternity of this family traces to a black horse called Tippoo, 

 foaled about the year 1817. Inasmuch as Messenger had a son named 

 Tippoo Saib, foaled 1795, and raised and kept on Long Island and 

 parts of New York and New Jersey, the name Tippoo is of itself 

 suggestive of that blood, although there is nothing indicating any 

 tracing to Tippoo Saib. 



This Tippoo was foaled at or in the vicinity of Belleville, in Canada 

 West, and the only history we have relating to him is, that a citizen 

 of Belleville traded for a brown mare in Lewis county. New York, in 

 the winter of 1817. The mare was in foal by ahorse that stood at the 

 time at Lowville in that part of the State of New York, and a horse 

 that was reputed at the time to be be one of great excellence. She 

 dropped a foal in the spring, and he grew to be the black stallion 

 Tippoo. 



The current history of the period leaves little doubt that the sire 

 of Tippoo was Ogden's Messenger, son of imported Messenger; dam 

 Katy Fisher by imported Highflyer; grandam an imported mare and 

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