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blunted by the severe labours of constant exercise 

 and running. He beat all the best horses of his day 

 at their own play, going too fast for the speedy and 

 running too long for the stout. . . . As a stallion 

 [he was] more calculated to get hacks, hunters and 

 coach horses, than racers. He, however, got a num- 

 ber of middling racers and some good brood mares, 

 but no runner of the first or even second class. He 

 went in remarkably good trotting form, and we have 

 heard that he would have trotted fourteen miles in 

 one hour." 



It is worth knowing thus much about 

 Mambrino, because this horse was the sire 

 of Messenger, who was exported to the 

 United States in 1788. Messenger was the 

 ancestor on the sire's side of Rysdyk's 

 Hambletonian, who on the dam's side owned 

 Jary's Bellfounder, a Hackney, as his grand- 

 sire ; and Hambletonian was the " King of 

 American trotting sires." 



GALLOPING POWER OF THE RACE- HORSE. 



To bring to their perfection the galloping" 

 powers of the race-horse it was necessary to 

 devote attention entirely to that pace ; and 

 the result of directing attention exclusively 

 to speed has been the sacrifice to some 

 extent of such qualities as action and 

 stamina. For generations now we have 

 bred for speed and speed only, with the 

 perfectly natural consequence that the quali- 



