THE OLD ROAD HACKNEY 191 



was a bright bay 15-hand horse, and was foaled in 1816, 

 being imported into America by Mr. James Booth, of 

 Boston, in July, 1822. 



According to Mr. Kissam, one of the gentlemen under 

 whose control he was in America, Bell founder had " a 

 small head and ears, full, prominent eyes and wide apart, 

 shoulders deep and oblique, deep girth, short back, round 

 ribbed, long, full quarters, pasterns rather short, tail 

 and mane full-haired." 



Messenger, a thoroughbred stallion, was exported 

 from England to America about the same time as Bell- 

 founder, and it was undoubtedly these two sires who 

 were the progenitors of the American trotter. At various 

 times thoroughbred blood has been infused, hence the 

 striking resemblance between the trotting horse and 

 the thoroughbred. 



