Trotting- Stallioiiss. 



(No. 17.) 



TRUE MESSENGER. 



(is said to have trotted in three minutes.) 



Gray ; foaled 1855 ; 16^ hands ; bred in Seneca 

 Co., N. Y., by Texan. 

 1st. Dam, grey mare, 15J hands, by " Dey's Mes- 

 senger." (See Pedigree). 

 2nd. Dam, by Crocker's Eclipse. (See Pedigree.) 

 3rd. " owned by Mr. Gambee, Seneca Co., 



N. Y. 



♦ 



Pedigeee of " Dey's Messenger." 

 {From Handbill in my possession of April 8th, 182i.) 



'"Messenger" is a fine dapple grey, near 16" 

 "hands high. He was raised by Pierson Dey, out" 

 "of a full-blooded mare; got by the old imported" 

 "horse Grey Messenger ; and her dam was got by" 

 ''Old Baronet. * * * Young Messenger was sired" 

 ''by Liberty. Liberty was got by Coriander, and" 

 " he was got by old Grey Messenger, which makes" 

 " the present horse as near a full-blooded Messenger" 

 "as any other in the State.'" 



Signed, " PIERSON DEY." 



Pedigree of Eclipse, 



Known in Seneca Co., N. Y., as " Crocker's 

 Eclipse" ; got by Don Quixote, he by Commander, 

 and he by old imported Messenger, supposed to 

 have been bred by Townsend Cock, and taken from 

 Long Island into Seneca Co., N Y. 



