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Mambrino, Potomac, Eclipse, Lance, Hambletonian, Tippo 

 Saib, Tippo Sultan, Postboy, etc., all give him such a 

 luster, that he could afford to loan to other families a sur- 

 plus, as you have exemplified in the case of the Bashaws, 

 and still be accredited as the greatest progenitor of 

 trotters. 



Before dinner I could not remember the pedigree of 

 young Damsel, the grandam of Postboy. I distincly re- 

 call it to mind now, and wonder that I could have been so 

 forgetful. She was by Hambletonian, the son of Messen- 

 ger, and had, therefore, the same amount of Messenger 

 blood as One Eye, the grandam of Bysdyk's Hambleton- 

 ian. Messenger's location in the section, that was to be 

 the recognized headquarters of trotting sport, was fortunate 

 for the establishment of a sport, which has made the 

 American roadster superior to those of all other countries; 

 and also fortunate in developing his stock as the best for 

 that purpose. Suppose his location had been in Virginia, 

 Carolina, Tennessee, or Kentucky. The success of his 

 colts on the turf would have been beyond the wonderful 

 performances the record now gives his descendants. He 

 would have got fifty thoroughbred mares where he had one 

 in Pennsylvania, and the owners of those colts would have 

 felt insulted at a request to make trotters of them, and 

 the very men who have assisted in developing the fast 

 trotting gait of hundreds of Messengers, would have 

 laughed at the idea of making trotters of Messenger's 

 colts. Hence, 1 say, it has been fortunate, alike for horse 

 and trotting sport, that his location was in New York. 

 His blood was disseminated over the whole eastern coun- 

 try, from Maine to Lake Erie; and not only his, but many 

 high-bred scions of other families, went from the Long 

 Island turf to enrich those places with a valuable stock of 

 road horses. 



When I have been arguing with men on the necessity 



