The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-13
nATLY JOURNAL
nnr Rnst Rree,ls 0f Horses.

breeds of horses. He says that all
the great trotting horses of America
have come of one blood-that of Mes
senger. an English horse imported
into New York, in 1888, and whose
lineage can be traced directly back
to the barley Arabian, who was the
sire Of Flying Childers; and to the
Cade mare. who was n GodOlphln
Arabian He is described asfollows:
He was a handsome gray, fifteen
and three-quarter hands high with
"a large bony head, rather short,
straight neck, with Windpipe and
nostrils nearly twice as large as ordi-
nary; low withers, shoulders some
what upright, but deep and strong !;
powerful loin and quarters; hooks
and knees unusually large, and below
them limbs of medium size, but fat
and clean, and whether at rest or In
motion always in a perfect position.
These records indicate that he had
more the form of a trOtter than the
thorough horse In general.
This form, along with the extraordi-
nary vitality and endurance of his
race, he gave to. his progeny
which being persistently used and
trained to trot, became still more
marked In these characteristic par
ticulars. The first generation OF his
descendants were fine road horses,
many of them fast, and all endowed
with extraordinary courage and en-
durance. The second and third gen.
erations possessed in still greater per-
lection the form and action of the
trotting horse, of which the fourth
generation has furnished the most
perfect specimens.
Messenger lived to be twenty-eight
years old. For fifteen years he was
owned in the neighborhood of New
York, and was held in such estima-
ton that ne probably left more nu-
merous family than any horse that
has ever lived. So great has been
the impress of his wonderful stamina
and splendid form upon the horses of
America, that those best acquainted
with the subject do not hesitate to
estimate his value to the country at
one hundred millions of dollars.
OF the other horses that have
founded lines Of trotters, Justin Nor
gan deserves to be mentioned first.
He was foaled in 1898 at Springfield,
Massachusetts, and when two years
old was taken to Vermont. HIS sire
was True Briton, fine horse ridden
by General Delaney in the Reyolu-
tionary War.
Morgan is described as a low,
compact, powerful horse, with proud
step, and good lively action" These
qualities he communicated to his de-
scendants, who are smooth, easy trav-
elers, aud possessed of indomitable
perseverance. Fox, one of his colts,
was driven one hundred and seventy
five miles on the road within twenty
four hours. The excellence of the
stock of New England is due to this
horse and to Hambletonian, son of
Messenger.
The Bashaws are descended from
two imported Arabian horses. The
first, known as Bashaw, was bred by
the Emperor of Morocco, by whom
he was presented to the Dey of AL
giers, and finally, through the Swedish
Consul, found his way to this country
about the year 1868.
Grand Bashaw was imported from
Tripoh In 1920 Andrew jackson,
Kemble Jackson, Long Island Black
Hawk, Henry Clay, Lantern, and
George M. Pateheu are OF his de-
scendants, although all of them are
more or less derived from Messenger,
The Bashaws are characterized by
fine size, handsome head and neck,
full name and tail, and a certain
pride and magnifcence of style.
The trOtting horse Belfounder was
imported from England in 1923. He
was a horse of great substance, of re-
markable spirit, and his career In
England was marked by splendid
achievements. At three years old he
trotted two miles in six minutes; and
when four years old, ten miles in thirty
minutes. Afterwards he trotted over
the Norfolk Course, seventeen and
one-half miles, within an hour, win
ming purse Of five hundred guineas
lie gave muscle and sineW to his
progeny, and Belfounder cross ap.
pears in the pedigree of many fine
trotting horses.
There remain to be mentioned ina
ported Trustee, and Sir Henry: Duroc
by thoroughbred Diomed; Glencoe
by Sultan; and the French horse.
Pilot and Royal George. These las
horses were only in part of the orig.
inal Norman stock; but they had
enough of the blood to show it il
their form, in the toughness of then
constitution, and in their bold trot
ting action.
From the horses that have beer
here enumerated all the trottin
horses and most of the road horse
In the United States have come. Il
the case of many trotting horses
pedigree cannot be made out; bu
whenever one is fully ascertained,
invariably establishes a connection
with oae or the other of them. A
excellent authority claims that n
great trotter has been produced who's
pedigree, when traced for four genel
ations, does not show a conneotio
with imported Messenger.
This record proves the immense In
huence of few good horses upon tn
stock of nation, and attests also tn
the superior qualities of the EnglisI
racer. All the horses here mentioned
are Of the Arabian and English thor
ough- bred stock, except the FrencI
horses, and even they are known t
have a strong infusion of the blood
From the vast hordes of wild horse
which roamed over the plains q
Texas, Mexico, and South Americs
not single animal equal In size
speed, and enduring power to thes
English horses and their direct de
scendants has ever been bred.
Mr.. Elderkin closes his instructiv
article as follows:
Trotting horses have increased
value even more rapidly than in nun
Der or speed. Since 1880 that increaS
has been about one hundred per cen
every ten years. The amount paid /
Mr.. MeDonald, of Baltimore, fl
Flora'Iemple in 1858, $1,000, repr,
SCENTS the value Of the best trotLiI