. The horse in America; a practical treatise on the various types common in the United States, with something of their history and varying characteristics. dsections did not begin till a later date. During theRevolutionary War there were few importations ofThoroughbreds, but when the young country hada little recovered in her industries from the effectsof that conflict, the importations began again andin 1788 the gray stallion Messenger, the founder insome measure of our trotting stock, was broughtout, and in 1799 the Derby winner Diomed —the most important of all horses, so far as race-horses
. The horse in America; a practical treatise on the various types common in the United States, with something of their history and varying characteristics. dsections did not begin till a later date. During theRevolutionary War there were few importations ofThoroughbreds, but when the young country hada little recovered in her industries from the effectsof that conflict, the importations began again andin 1788 the gray stallion Messenger, the founder insome measure of our trotting stock, was broughtout, and in 1799 the Derby winner Diomed —the most important of all horses, so far as race-horses in America are concerned — came out toVirginia. Of Messenger, much will be said in theproper place; of Diomed, here is the place tospeak of his record and his influence on theThoroughbreds born to America. As a race-horsehe was par excellence the horse of his day inEngland, carrying practically everything beforehim while that day lasted. But he was kept intraining too long — for what may be called twodays instead of one — and rather lost his famebefore he was retired to the stud. In the stud hewas successful, but was not fashionable, his ». y. ^ o ?:: •A >? ?a THE THOROUGHBRED IN AMERICA 43 standing fee being reduced to two guineas beforehe was sold to Colonel Hoomes to be taken toVirginia. In Virginia he was an immense successas a sire, and few successful horses of Americanstock up to the present time lack a strain of thisblood. Among his American progeny were SirArchie, Florizel, Potomac, Peacemaker, TopGallant, Hamiltonian, Vingt-un, Duroc, Hamp-ton, Commodore Trixton, the dam of Sir Henryand the dam of Eliza White. He was in the studonly eight years in this country, but left an im-perishable impression. While he lived he domi-nated all other stallions in America, and after-wards his sons worthily took his place. He was achestnut, in stature, and was got by Florizelout of a Spectator mare, her dam by Blank, gran-dam by Childers out of Miss Belvoir by Gray
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