A GREAT HORSE 



breeder, Samuel Whitman, of Chester, Orange county, 

 X. Y., when an unbroken two-year-old, for $800, has 

 said that Robert looked very much like her. He, and 

 Cresceus as well, were dowered with the Star family 

 color, chestnut. Still Nancy herself was a bright bay. 

 Her dam, Nance, was by Durland's Young Messenger 

 Duroc, son of Duroc, the famous race horse. The ped- 

 igree is given as it stands in the Trotting Register, but 

 it is more than doubtful if he was by Stockholm's 

 American Star, or if his dam was Sally Slouch, by 

 Henry, the celebrated son of Sir Archy, out of a mare 

 by Imp. Messenger, and it is also doubtful if Stock- 

 holm's Star was Duroc. If the accepted version is cor- 

 rect, however, Nancy Whitman was very strongly in- 

 bred, as her dam's sire was by a grandson of Duroc, 

 whose dam was by a son of Imp. Messenger. So much 

 in the abstract of the paternal part of Cresceus's blood 

 inheritance. His dam, Mabel, is by Mambrino How- 

 ard, a horse otherwise slightly known to fame and 

 concerning whom but few facts seem discernible. He 

 was a brown horse, foaled 1858, and a son of Mam- 

 brino Chief. His dam was a "very fine black mare'' 

 called Belle, by a pacing horse called Scrugg's Davy 

 Crockett, bred by J. Bagby, near Covington, Kenton 

 county, Kentucky, and out of a mare "called thorough- 

 bred." Nothing is known of Scrugg's Davy Crockett, 

 except that he was a pacing horse brought from Clin- 

 tonville, Bourbon county, Kentucky, by Volney 

 Scruggs, but his name and gait make the inference 



