PEDIGEEE 



or T R T T I N G-H R S E S. 



It was my hope that I should be able to give my readers 

 the complete and authentic pedigrees of several distinguished 

 trotting-horses, which are believed to be nearly if not entirely 

 tlioroughbred. For although thorough blood is not a necessary 

 cause of excellence to the trotter, as it is to the race-horse, there 

 can be no doubt that both for speed and endurance it is an ad- 

 junct highly desirable. 



This is rendered manifest by the known high and pure blood, 

 on both sides, of many of the most celebrated horses which have 

 ever trotted on American soil, and, if possible, yet more so by 

 the attempts constantly made by the owners of trotting-horses 

 not thoroughbred, to prove them to be what they are not. 



A few, however, and those the very best, are known to be of 

 the highest strain. 



Paul Pry was got by Mount Holly, dam by Hambletonian. 



Abdallah and Messenger, trotting stallions, by Mambrino, 

 also a trotter, by Messenger. 



Andrew Jackson, whose pedigree is given above in full, was 

 got by Young Bashaw, a thoroughbred son of the Barb Grand 

 Bashaw, out of a grand-daughter of Messenger. 



Kemble Jackson was got by Andrew Jackson out of Fanny 

 Kemble, sister to Charles Kemble, by Sir Archy, &c., &c., per- 

 fectly thoroughbred of the highest strain. 



Long Island Black Hawk was by Andrew Jackson, out of 

 Sally Miller, a famous trotting-mare, who was got by Mambrino, 

 a half-bred son of Messenger 

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