lOTED MimE BRED HORSES; 



THEIR ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 



]y:ESSEN"aER stock:. 



WINTHROP MESSENGEE. 



Chief among the distinguished horses known in this 

 State was the "Old Winthrop," or Maine Messenger. 

 He was "Jjurchased in Paris, Oneida Co., New York, by 

 Alvin Hayward, of WinQirop, Me., and brought by him 

 into that town in the year 1816. 



Those who have seen him describe him as a "large, 

 gray, muscular horse, in his old age white as chalk, with 

 a clumsy head, but well proportioned body and legs; 

 nearly 17 hands high, and weighing in ordinary flesh 1,300 

 pounds." His form and general appearance indicated a 

 powerful animal, and he possessed a strong dash of tem- 

 per, but he never exhibited any of those qualities which 

 would have entitled him to be called'" a fast horse." 



He was got by Imported Messenger, a gray stallion 15J 



hands high, and stoutly built, who was landed from a 



vessel at the foot of Market street, Philadelphia, in May, 



1788. His dam's pedigree is lost, and is at present uq;- 



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