Breeder and sportsman . r sire was Mambrino Messenger,or, as he was better known The Dunkin Horse. Hewas a beautiful bay in color and was foaled in 1841;his sire was Mambrino Paymaster, dam Lady Messen-ger by Coffins Messenger; grandam by Old Childers,son of Kouli Khan. He was bred by Jacob Dunkin,Duchess County, New York, and after passingthrough several owners hands, finally died in BoyleCounty, Kentucky, in 1863. Mambrino Paymaster,his sire, was also the sire of Mambrino Chief 11,and he was by Mambrino (sire of Abdallah 1). Cof-fins Messenger was by Imported Messenger, out ofa daughter of I
Breeder and sportsman . r sire was Mambrino Messenger,or, as he was better known The Dunkin Horse. Hewas a beautiful bay in color and was foaled in 1841;his sire was Mambrino Paymaster, dam Lady Messen-ger by Coffins Messenger; grandam by Old Childers,son of Kouli Khan. He was bred by Jacob Dunkin,Duchess County, New York, and after passingthrough several owners hands, finally died in BoyleCounty, Kentucky, in 1863. Mambrino Paymaster,his sire, was also the sire of Mambrino Chief 11,and he was by Mambrino (sire of Abdallah 1). Cof-fins Messenger was by Imported Messenger, out ofa daughter of Imported Light Infantry (son of therenowned English Eclipse and a mare by Feather).Old Childers was by Kouli Khan (son of Bajazette)out of Imported Harlot by Phenomenon; second damby Snap. This horse, Light Infantry, had quite areputation as a sire of game racehorses in England. Messenger Chief, whose dam was this mare RoseKinney, sired sixteen in 2:30 list, one of them wasManning 2:18%, a gelding those well known horse-. SWEET MARIE 2:02McKinneys fastest trotter. men the late By Holly and Thos. Keating won anumber of races within California. Seven of Mes-senger Chiefs sons sired fifteen, and twenty-six ofhis daughters produced thirty-seven in the 2:30 Kinneys brother, Gen. Geo. H. Thomas wasalso quite a sire, some of his descendants are in the2:10 list. Billy Andrews 2:06% and Captor 2:09%being out of two of his daughters. He sired seventrotters one sire of five and eight dams of four-teen. It was no disgrace to trace to this horse Mam-brino Messenger, for his name is to be found in thepedigrees of Queen Walnut 2:07%; the sire GrandMoor, whose daughters produced Joe Wheeler 2:07%,Arthur W. 2:11%, John A. 2:12%, Humboldt Maid2:13%, Lady Waldstein 2:15, Sidmore 2:17% (sireof Rosie OMoore 2:12, Enoch 2:12%, General 2:14%,Little Miss 2:17%, etc.). Mambrino Messenger alsosired the dam of Ulster Chief, to whom Clipper 2:06,Maud Newman 2:17%, and Miles Beauty also
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