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parents or grandparents 64 times. Or, to put 

 the matter in another way, out of 96 known 

 animals in the ninth generation of Alix' pedi- 

 gree, Messenger, his parents and grandparents 

 make up 65. If the same holds true for the 

 xmknown lines of ancestry, Alix is at least 60 

 per cent Messenger blood. 



Imported Messenger was an English stallion 

 brought into this country in 1788; he traces 

 back to Godolphin Arabian and Darley Arabian, 

 from which stock England's best racers are 

 derived. Many of the other animals in this 

 ninth generation of Alix' ancestry, such as 

 Diomed, Fireaway, and Highflyer, also come 

 from these same Arabians. 



If the male Une is traced in aU recorded 

 American trotters, going back of the sire to the 

 grandsire, to the great-grandsire, and so on, it 

 is found that out of 22,238 animals registered 

 to the end of 1906, 16,495 descended "in tail- 

 male" — as this particular hne of descent is 

 designated — ^from Imported Messenger; 170 

 out of the 180 trotters of the 2 : 10 class are also 

 so derived from him, and 146 out of 150 of the 



