FOUNDATION SIRES 



second dam One Eye, by Bishop's Hambletonian, by 

 imp. Messenger; third dam Silvertail, by imp. Mes- 

 senger. 



MAMBRINO CHIEF, brown horse of 16 hands, bred 

 by Richard Eldridge of Dutchess County, N. Y.; 

 born in 1844; taken to Lexington, Ky., in 1854; 

 died in March, 1862. By Mambrino Paymaster, by 

 Mambrino, by imp. Messenger; dam a big and 

 angular mare of untraced blood. 



JUSTIN MORGAN, a bay horse of 14 hands, 950 

 pounds, bred by Justin Morgan; born in 1789 at 

 West Springfield, Mass. ; taken as a weanling to Ran- 

 dolph, Orange County, Vermont; died in 1821. By 

 true Briton, by Lloyd's Traveller, who was out of 

 Betty Leeds by Babraham, by Godolphin Arabian; 

 dam by Diamond, by Church's Wildair, by imp. 

 Wildair, by Cade by Godolphin Arabian. [This 

 tracing was made by Joseph Battell and it is not free 

 from conjecture.] 



The interweaving of the strains descended from 

 Justin Morgan and Messenger is largely responsible 

 for the form, action, and temperament of the light- 

 harness horse of America. The most potent of the 

 descendants of Messenger were Hambletonian and 

 Mambrino Chief. 



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