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THE HORSE. 



Sampson, 

 Mambrino, 

 and Mes- 

 senger. 



America 

 about to be- 

 come the 

 greatest 

 horse -pro- 

 ducing 

 coiintrv. 



this system they commenced, and have 

 never attempted to alter their plans, for 

 last century they imported from this 

 country a stout-built horse, Messenger, ' 

 by Mambrino, who, "in 1768, was con- 

 sidered a wonderfully fast trotter for a 

 race-horse." " Book of the Horse." 

 Sidney's Mambrino was the grandson of 

 Sampson, "the strongest horse," according 

 to Laurence, " that ever raced before or 

 since his time." Messenger in America 

 became the progenitor of stock from 

 which some of the best trotters in the 

 States have descended. 



The Americans possess the means for 

 the propagation of the best horses in the 

 world through all their various types. 

 Their great extent of country allows them 

 to devote large enclosed spaces for their 



