Identifier: horsehisbreeding00merw (find matches)
Title: The horse : his breeding, care, and treatment in health and disease
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Merwin, Henry Childs, 1853-1929
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A. C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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on of Messenger.Messenger, a gray thoroughbred, was foaled at New-market in England in 1780, and imported to this coun-try in 1788. Being a tough, powerful horse, with anatural trotting gait (notwithstanding his breeding),he became the sire of many valuable harness horses,although as a sire of runners he was rather a failure. Messenger was a horse of great vitality. He had astormy passage from England, and one who saw himtaken off the ship relates that three other horses, hiscompanions on the long voyage — had become so reduced and weak that they had to be helpedand supported down the gang-plank; but when it becameMessengers turn to land, he, with a loud neigh, rushed down,with a negro on each side holding him back, and dashed up thestreet at a stiff trot, carrying the grooms along in spite of alltheir efforts to bring him to a standstill. ^ We see the same thing occasionally m the human race, as, forexample, in the family founded by John Adams, second President ofthe United States.
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PERCHERON STALLION, DRAGON

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