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I only offer it for what it is worth ; if true, the stock 

 would be greatly enhanced in my estimation. Patclien 

 had also a Trustee cross which, without doubt helped him, 

 the get of Trustee having proved themselves trotters able 

 to go both fast and far. 



The pedigree of Andrew Jackson shows another Mes- 

 senger cross which jon have overlooked. The dam of 

 Young Bashaw was by Bond's First Consul, his grandam 

 by Messenger, his great-grandam by Rockinghain. This 

 would add one-sixteenth more Messenger blood to Andrew 

 Jackson, making seven-sixteenths in all. No wonder, when 

 he was so near thoroughbred as his pedigree shows, that 

 William T. Porter wrote, in the Turf Register of 1840, that 

 "with the exception of Andrew Jackson, for whom $5,000 

 has been refused, Abdallah is the finest limbed and most 

 blood-like trotting stallion we ever saw." The sire of 

 Young Bashaw's dam, Bond's First Consul, was a capital 

 race horse, winning twenty-one races and upwards of 

 $10,000 in purses alone, never suffering defeat till he was 

 eight years old. This great progenitor of trotters (Andrew 

 Jackson), having nearly all racing blood in his veins, helps 

 to establish the truth of my theory, that the thoroughbred 

 is the only one to depend on for continuing the species. 

 I will continue Mr. Porter's remarks about Abdallah : 

 "He was got by the celebrated Mambrino (the son of 

 imported Messenger) out of Mr. Treadwell's equally as 

 celebrated road mare, Amazonia, who for ten years, or 

 more, had no superior on the road. Abdallah is a beauti- 

 ful bay without white, fifteen hands three inches high. 

 He was slightly trained at fours years old, and was consid- 

 ered the fastest horse on Long Island. No purses being 

 offered at that time for trotting, Mr. T. put him in the 

 breeding stud," &c. &c. I have read that the Amazonia 

 was a well-bred mare, and that she was a daughter or 

 grand-daughter of Messenger, but cannot recall where I 



