48 THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE. 



" PERFORMANCES. 



"Messenger won the following sums in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785, as 

 may be seen by the racing calendars. In September he beat, at Newmarket, 

 Mr. Potter's Colchester, by Shark, for 100 guineas. October 30, 1783, he 

 beat Mr. Napier's horse Specter across the Flat for 300 guineas, and Mr. Fox's 

 horse Pynhus across the New Flat for 150 guineas. 



"In May, 1784, he beat Lord Barrington's Tiger for twenty -five guineas ; 

 in July, 1784, he beat Mr. Windham's hprse Apothecary for 200 guineas ; 

 Lord Foley's Rodney, Mr. Westell's Snowdrop, and Mr. Clark's Flower for 

 sixty guineas, and Lord Foley's Ulysses for 100 guineas. In March, 1785, he 

 beat His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales' Ulysses for 200 guineas, and 

 Mr. Windham's horse Fortitude for 300 guineas. 



"In April, 1785, he beat Lord Sherburn's horse Taylor for fifty guineas. 



In addition to the above he has won the King's plate, and is the only horse on 



the continent said to have done the same. 



(Signed) 



"BISHOP UNDERHILL." 



Florizal, imported into Maryland in 1794, was a good stock 

 horse and some of the best of our Southern horses of to-day- 

 trace to him. 



Diomed, foaled in 1777 in England, and imported into Vir- 

 ginia in 1799, when twenty -two years old, was a most remark- 

 able stock horse, and his influence as such is felt in America 

 to-day. He was the sire — in America — of the great Sir 

 Archy, a very distinguished horse of his day and justly called 

 the Godolphin Arabian of America. He was a brown horse, 

 sixteeen and one-half hands high, of great substance, and left 

 an exceeding numerous and very valuable progeny at his death 

 when twenty-eight years old. 



Trustee, foaled in 1829, contributed his full share, probably, 

 in the improvement of the American horses of his time, both 

 as regards speed and quality. 



Priam was also among the best ; so of many of the later 

 importations, among which may be recounted Glencoe, the 

 great horse of the two continents, brought from England to 

 Alabama in 1836, and considered one of the best the world 

 had then produced, and his descendants are not to be despised 

 to-day. 



