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senger surpasses that of all other horses in producing trotting supe- 

 riority. Messenger was foaled in 1 780 and imported to America 

 in 1 788. He was a Thoroughbred by Mambrino, by Engineer, 

 by Sampson, by Blaze (?), by Flying Childers, by Darley Arabian. 

 Messenger's dam was by Turf, by Matchem, by Cade, out of 

 dam by Regulus, both by Godolphin Barb. Perhaps the trotting 

 propensities of the Messenger family come through Sampson, who 

 is described as a horse of unusual size and power, with a marked 

 preference for the trotting gait. So strongly was this trotting ten- 

 dency displayed that when considered with his size and conforma- 

 tion, it has caused some horsemen to question his breeding, sug- 

 gesting that he may have been got by a coach horse instead of a 

 Thoroughbred. BELLFOUNDER was another trotting Thor- 

 oughbred, foaled in 1815, imported in 1 822, got by Bellfounder 

 out of Velocity by Sir Peter, out of Miss Hervey by Eclipse. 

 The great HAMBLETONIAN family of trotters was founded 

 by Rysdeck's Hambletonian out of Bellfounder mare by a grand- 

 son of Messenger. 



MAMBRINO, a son of Messenger, was the founder of the 

 Mambrino family. 



Space forbids us to dwell at length upon DUROC, son of 

 Diomed, a Derby winner, and Pilot, a French Canadian pacer, 

 foaled in 1 826, and Grand Bashaw, a Barb brought from Tripoli 

 in 1820 ; but we must pause to make mention a little more fully 

 of JUSTIN MORGAN, the progenitor of the Morgan line. 



JUSTIN MORGAN was foaled in I 793 near Springfield. 

 Mass. He was probably by a Thoroughbred horse (True Briton 

 or Beautiful Bay) and out of a mare said to carry the blood of 

 Lindsey Arabian in her veins. Justin Morgan was owned for 

 many years in Middlebury, Vt., where he was employed about a 

 saw mill, in addition to other duties. He must have been a marvel 

 of versatility, for he is said to have been able to outwork, outtrot, 

 outrun, and outpull any horse in the region. Though he weighed 



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