THEIR GAIT. 35.") 



members of the Mambrino Chief family descended from Mrs. Caudle, 

 although modified, of course, by the Duroc-Messenger method of the 

 Chief's family. It is one that is suggestive of a longer member than 

 that employed by the other Messenger families. The Royal Georges 

 show a rather straight, unbending leverage, while the Harris Ham- 

 bletonians display a shorter range of machinery, but a muscular 

 control over it, exceedingly vigorous, and precise in its movement. 



On a recent occasion, I was speaking with an Orange county 

 horseman, very well known, and one who knows the gaits of that 

 region, and I called his attention to the matter of gait of a noted 

 trotter of the Royal George family, and he replied, " he is Star 

 gaited — that is it exactly — he goes very wide apart." This incident 

 illustrated my views quite well. The Royal Georges are not Star 

 gaited any more than the Mambrino Chiefs are, but there is a degree 

 of similarity. 



These observations, however, do not necessarily interfere with the 

 supposition that the dam of Royal George may have been a 

 daughter of Harris' Hambletonian. 



The sire Tippoo, if a son of Ogden's Messenger, may have in- 

 herited a physical conformation, tracing back to Gimcrack, which 

 worked a modification of his Messenger anatomy as clear and 

 unmistakable as that which Duroc derived from the same original, 

 and which, in the two bloods of Messenger and Diomed, may have 

 worked out in the very ways respectively seen in the Duroc descend- 

 ants, and in the Royal Georges of the present day. An increase of 

 leverage has been the undoubted product of that blood, and its 

 origin was most probably with the grey racer Gimcrack. 



When Royal George was about four years old, he was sold by Mr. 

 Barnes to James Forshee, and was known as the "Forshee Horse" 

 for several years. He then was sold to one Frank Munger, and from 

 Munger he was sold to one Dougherty, of Caledonia. By Dougherty 

 his name was changed to that of " Royal George," and by that he and 

 his family are known to this day. In December, 1858, he was sold 

 to W. H. Ashford, of Bufiklo, and was kept at Buifalo and Lewiston. 

 He died in 18G1 at St. Catherines, Canada West. He was a large 

 horse, sixteen hands high, and of great substance, remarkable for 

 great vigor of action ; long of limb, deep through the heart place 

 and forequarter, a little like the pacing stock, and when starting off, 

 he and his family often pace, but when they strike a trot they do it 

 with a big swing of the hind feet, a wide spreading gait, and a long 



