THE MESSENGER BLOOD. 303 



"With few exceptions, the trotters of the present day belong 

 to three families or strains, the superior of which is the 

 Messenger. Messenger not only stands at the head of the 

 list, as the remote ancestor of trotters, but it is very hard 

 to find a celebrity, accredited to the other families, that 

 has not some of his blood. Among the very fast ones in 

 lineal descent from him through their sires, are Geo. 

 "Wilkes, Dexter, Lady Thome and Gen. Butler the two 

 first mentioned having a greater proportion of the blood, 

 through the inbreeding of their sire, a great grandson o 

 the patriarch. Lady Thome, through her dam, has also 

 a cross of the blood, viz : Gano-Eclipse-Miller's-Damsel- 

 Messenger. The Bashaws would come next, as they are 

 represented by Lady Emma, Geo. M. Patchen, Jr., and 

 Lucy. The Pilot family have Pilot Temple, Dixie, Tacky, 

 and other good ones. John Morgan, the best of this line, 

 had the Messenger cross through the sire of his dam, 

 Medoc. The once celebrated Morgan has scions, that are 

 superior to any that were on the turf in their palmy days, 

 in the inare by Ethan Allen out of the pacer Pocahontas, 

 and Holla Gold Dust. The Messenger crops out through 

 the fleet pacer, in the same way as Lady Thorne and John 

 Morgan, she being a great grand-daughter of Eclipse ; 

 Holla Gold Dust has, I believe, the same cross. From the 

 prevalence of Messenger blood in the section where the 

 Bashaws originated from the imported Barb there has 

 been a great intermingling of the streams. The stallion 

 Andrew Jackson, a grand-son of the Barb, has been the 

 occasion of their eminence. He was the sire of Henry 

 Clay, Long Island Black Hawk, Kemble Jackson, &c. His 

 dam was by Why Not, by Messenger, and his grandam 

 also by Messenger. 



Again : Jupiter, a son of Long Island Black Hawk, and 

 the sire of Lady Emma, had two crosses, his dam Gipsey 

 being by Almack, a grandson, and her dam by Mambrino 



