Admiral, by Florizel, son of King Herod. Ancient Pistol, by Ancient Pistol, son of Snap. Arrakooker, by Drone, son of King Herod. Baronet, by Vertumnus, son of Eclipse. Benjamin, by Ruler, son of Young Marske. Creeper, by Tandem, son of Dainty Davy. Deserter, by Lenox, son of Delpini, by Highflyer. Dey of Algiers, Arabian. Diomed (Tate’s), by Phenomenon, son of King Herod. Driver, by Saltram, son of Eclipse. Drone, by King Herod. Dungannon (Young), by Dungannon. Expedition, by Pegasus, son of Eclipse. Express, by Postmaster, son of King Herod. Exton, by Highflyer, son of King Herod. Florizel, by Florizel, son of King Herod. Grand Seignor, Arabian. Highflyer (1782), by Highflyer. Highflyer (1792), by Highflyer. Highlander (Brown), by Paymaster. Highlander (Gray), by Bordeaux. Honest John, by Sir Peter Teazle. Joseph, by Ormond, son of King Fergus. King William, by King Herod. King William, by Paymaster. Light Infantry, by Eclipse. Magnetic Needle, by Magnet. Magnum Bonum, by Matchem. Nimrod, by King Fergus. North Star, by North Star, son of Matchem. Paymaster, by Paymaster. Prince Frederick, by Fortunio. Punch, by King Herod. Revenge, by Achilles. Rodney, by Paymaster. Royal George, by Jupiter, son of Eclipse. Royalist, by Saltram. Slender, by King Herod. Sour Crout, by Highflyer. Venetian, by Doge. Yorkshire, by Jupiter, son of Eclipse. Here we have forty-one imported English stallions, contemporaneous with Messenger, occupying the same territory and covering the same mares that he covered. With the exceptions of two or three they were all ranked as not only thoroughbred, but they possessed the most fashionable and successful blood that England had then produced. A few of them were taken southward after a time, but the great body of them lived out their days here. To this great array of imported English running horses we might add hundreds of their sons, and yet not find one that claimed to be thoroughbred that ever became a trotting progenitor or founded a family of trotters. Mr. Foster and Mr. Simpson, by far the two ablest writers on the wrong side of the question that this country has produced, with this list of forty English stallions before them from which to select their proof that Messenger was not the only progenitor of trotters, were at last compelled to take two of Messengers sons, as trotting progenitors, to prove that their sire was not a trotting progenitor. If the intellectual powers of these two gentlemen had enabled them to scratch ever so little beneath the glittering surface of the word “thoroughbred,” they would have saved themselves from this humiliating exhibition of absurdity.