PEDIGREE OF ARIEL. 



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Ariel 



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The Bashaw in this pedigree was a brother to Miss 

 Slamerkin, the great-grandam of Mambrino. It will be need- 

 less to look for further illustrations of the racing qualities 

 of Messenger's stock many of them as good as ever 

 answered the bugle's call to saddle and start. Ariel had 

 five-sixteenths of the blood, a thirty-second part more 

 than Rysdyk's Hambletonian. Those two inbred animals 

 being respectively on the topmost round of fame, are apt 

 illustrations of the value of the blood for both gaits. The 

 bell is sounding its welcome invitation to dinner ; after we 

 enjoy that, with your permission, I will resume, and further 

 show the plan I believe the best for breeding trotters. 



