MESSENGER AND HIS ANCESTORS.
Messenger the greatest of all trotting progenitors—Record of
pedigrees in English Stud Book—Pedigrees made from unreliable
sources—Messenger’s right male line examined—Flying Childers’
“mile in a minute”—Blaze short of being thoroughbred—Sampson,
a good race horse—His size; short in his breeding—Engineer
short also—Mambrino was a race horse with at least two pacing
crosses; distinguished as a progenitor of coach horses and fast
trotters—Messenger’s dam cannot be traced nor identified—Among
all the horses claiming to be thoroughbred he is the only one
that founded a family of trotters—This fact conceded by eminent
writers in attempting to find others 205-221