82 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
Darley Arabian 
Flying Childers 
Blaze 
Sampson Shales 
ee Useful Cub 
Drive Scott's 
Mambrino ae Shales 
oe The Fireaways 
| | | Pretender Achilles 
Mambrino Hambletonian Silvertail 
| (Bisbop’s) Riveaway7 
_  (Triffit’s) 
| Bellfounder 5 
Mambrino Pay- Abdallah One Eye 
master 
Chas. Kent mare — Bellfounder 55 
Mambrino Chief II 
Hambletonian 10 
With the advent of Messenger, the trotting instinct 
becomes decidedly more pronounced. The chief feature 
of his pedigree is that he was not only a Thoroughbred, 
but dips deep into the fountain sources of that breed. 
The records are pregnant with the performances of his 
progeny and also attest to his value as a progenitor of 
trotting speed, through the get of his sons, and the degree 
to which their blood permeates the pedigrees of even our 
most notable of modern trotters. In the catalogue of 
the International Stock Food Farm, there appears an ex- 
ceptionally erudite pedigree of Dan Patch 1:554, the 
champion pacer of the world, and it is shown that he traces 
forty-three times to Messenger. The first noted per- 
former of this strain was Topgallant. Paul Pry, a grand- 
son of Messenger, was ridden by Woodruff 18 miles in a 
fraction less than 57 minutes. Lady Suffolk began racing 
