CRESCE.US, 2 : O 2 / 4 



esting to find in Vol. II, of the Register, that his 

 breeder, Thomas Darnaby, of Fayette county, Ken- 

 tucky, sold him to go to Ohio in the '5o's for $2,000 

 "said to be the largest price then ever paid for a trot- 

 ting stallion in Kentucky." Victor's sire, Downing's 

 Bay Messenger, played an important part in the foun- 

 dation breeding in the blue grass. He got Jim Porter, 

 saddle record, 2 128 J, in 1860, and many of the famous 

 early Kentucky trotting brood mares, including Little 

 Nora, dam of Clark Chief ; Bacchante, third dam of the 

 noted sires, Egmont, Meander, and Nugget; Helen 

 Mar, fourth dam of the famous Allerton, 2 109^, the 

 fifth dam of Ralph Wilkes, 2 :o6| ; Rilma 2 :oo4, etc., 

 etc. 



Victor's dam was by Hunt's Brown Highlander, of 

 whom the Register, Vol. II, says : "Probably no horse 

 did more in his "day (from 1831 onward) than he to 

 improve the harness horses of Kentucky." He was 

 by St. Patrick Highlander, son of Imp. Brown High- 

 lander, his dam by Rockingham, grandam by Imp. 

 Messenger. Peculiarly enough, Downing's Bay Mes- 

 senger was by Harpinus (grandson of Messenger), 

 dam "of Messenger and Rockingham blood ;" and when 

 he got Victor from a Hunt's Highlander mare there 

 was a close inbreeding of these strains, which with 

 the double individual Bay Messenger cross, gives a 

 most interesting twist to the inheritance. 



Crusader the sire of Cresceus's fourth dam, was the 

 thoroughbred son of Sir Archy and Lottery by Imp. 



