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and at other places. His color was mahogany bay, rather dark. This Har- 

 ris' Hambletonian was by Bishop's Hambletonian; the dam was a grey mare 

 brought from New Haven, Connecticut. I knew her well. The Judson Horse 

 I knew well also ; he was by Bishop's Hambletonian. There was one other 

 by Bishop's Hambletonian, called Comet, and there was one other, the second 

 generation of Hambletonians from the Bishop; one got by Harris' horse, 

 called the Noble Horse; one other, called the Parris Horse (both of these were 

 ^ood stock getters), and one other stallion by the Judson Hambletonian, 

 called the Andreas Horse. You can depend on what I tell you of this Jack 

 Williams horse, the very Harris Horse. He was foaled within one hundred 

 rods of my father's house, and I was the first human being the colt ever saw, 

 and the first boy that ever put the bit into his mouth. 



These letters enable us to decide, with reasonable safety, that the 

 Morse Horse, the sire of Norman, was by this so-called imported 

 horse; that his dam was by the Harris Hambletonian, a son of Bishop's 

 Hambletonian, a son of imported Messenger, and that the grandam 

 was also, probably, by a son of Messenger. By recurring, also, to the 

 pedigree of Norman, as rendered in the Trotting Register^ it will be 

 seen that he is credited with a grandam by Bishop's Hambletonian, 

 and this will give Norman three direct crosses of Messenger blood; 

 and the dams of Blackwood and Swio;ert adding' two additional crosses 

 of that blood, all immediate and direct, would present a concentra- 

 tion of that blood which we should look for in the characteristics and 

 blood traits of the two horses under consideration, and we look not in 

 vain. In no family in this country are there found so many traces of 

 the form, type and outward characteristics, as well as the nerve traits 

 of imported Messenger, as we have learned those traits by tradition 

 and the members of the family that have come down to us. Lay 

 your hand on the level but thick and firm withers or shoulders, and 

 you find Messenger — the shoulderblades coming to the top of the 

 withers, and seeming to be one and indistinguishable. Head, fore- 

 head and brain, all of the Messenger type; body and barrel, rump, 

 croup and tail after the same model; the whirlbone sits high, and the 

 rump does not droop; the breast and neck and shoulder have all the 

 compact form of Messenger, and the entire hindquarter, save the long 

 thigh and the slender gaskin, which are not Messenger, and in this 

 particular the Messenger model has been entirely overcome. 



The so-called imported horse is found in the defective foreleg 

 anatomy. It will be kept in mind that this imported horse was in the 

 highest state of preservation in all respects save his forelegs. He was 

 evidently aged — fifteen to twenty years old — ^yet a trotter equal to 



