. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. d disjilayed inthese races is something extraordinary. American people especially have always beenenthusiastic supporters of trotting races, andto-day there is scarcely a county or state fair famous families of trotting horses have beenbuilt upon Messenger, who was imported tothis country during the latter part of theeighteenth century. This famous horse wasfoaled in 17S0 in England. Me was sired byMambrino out of a daughter of Turf. Mam-brino was by Engineer, son of Sampson, byBlaze, by Flying Childers, son of the DarleyArabi
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. d disjilayed inthese races is something extraordinary. American people especially have always beenenthusiastic supporters of trotting races, andto-day there is scarcely a county or state fair famous families of trotting horses have beenbuilt upon Messenger, who was imported tothis country during the latter part of theeighteenth century. This famous horse wasfoaled in 17S0 in England. Me was sired byMambrino out of a daughter of Turf. Mam-brino was by Engineer, son of Sampson, byBlaze, by Flying Childers, son of the DarleyArabian, a horse imported to England fromthe Orient in the reign of Queen Anne. Turf,the reputed sire of the dam of Messenger, wasby Matchem, son of Cade, by the GodolphinArabian. The four chief families of the Ameri-can trotting horse are Hambletonian, the Mam-brino Chief, the Clays, and the Black Hawks. I50 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS Just when racing at either the trotting, run-ning, or pacing gait began in America it is diffi-cult to determine; but there is a record of a. Hamhi,i:toxiax running race on Hempstead Heath, LongIsland, in 1665. There is a recorded trottingperformance at Harlem, New York, July 6,1806, at which time Yankee trotted a mile At Philadelphia, in August, 1810, a Bos-ton horse trotted a mile in }^. Perhapsthese records fairly represent the speed limitin America a century ago. If we take it forgranted that Yankee could trot a mile in
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