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known. Imported Messenger was foaled in 1780, bred 

 by John Pratt, Esq., of New Market, England, where he 

 was a successful runner, winning the King's Plate in 

 1785, when five years old. His pedigree was as follows: 

 Got by Mambrino, dam by Turf, grand dam by Kegulus, 

 etc. It is said that " the other horses which accompanied 

 him on the voyage to this country had become so reduced 

 and weak, that when taken off the ship which brought 

 them, they had to be helped and supported down the 

 gang-plank; but when it c'ame Messenger's turn to land, 

 he with a loud neigh, charged down,' with a colored groom 

 on each side holding him back, and dashed off up the 

 street on a stiff trot, carrying the grooms along in spite 

 of all their efforts to bring him to a stand still. He died 

 January 28, 1808. 



Winthrop Messenger was the first messenger horse 

 brought into Maine, and was owned several years in "Win- 

 throp and vicinity by different parties. First by Mr. 

 Hayward, then Geo. W. Stanley, and A. M. Shaw. In 

 1829 Mr. Shaw sold him to John M. Eustis,of Dixfield, 

 Oxford Co., for $180. 



"While owned in Dixfield he stood for service at $5.00, 

 but having so little patronage he was turned out to pas- 

 ture, when he broke his near fore leg. This, however, 

 did not incapacitate him for service in the stud, although 

 he was lame ever after. Eustis sold him back to Shaw in 

 1832, and he was afterwards taken to Anson by Henry 

 Stone, and died there in 1834. He was, says Mr. Wood- 

 ruff, of great value to Maine, and got many fine trotters. 



Mr. J. H. "Wallace says, " he founded a race of trotters 

 that have no superiors in the Union. Prom his loins 

 have sprung a race that all the world recognizes .as among 

 the fastest and best that this countj-y has ever pi'oduced." 



