Messenger Horse Pedigree

Owner: 1) John Pratt 2) Thomas Bullock 3) Thomas Benger 4) Henry Astor 5) Cornelius W. Van Rantz
Breeder: John Pratt
Winnings: 14 Starts: 8 - 2 - 2

Newmarket unless stated:- 14 Oct 1783 - 300gns match v Spectre; 27 Oct 1783 - 150gns match v Mr. Fox's colt (rec 2lbs); 8 May 1783 - 25gns match v Trigger (rec 7lbs); 14 Jul 1784 - 60gns stakes (2/1, from Rodney and Snowdrop); 14 Jul 1784 (same day) - 100gns match v Ulysses (con 19lbs); 28 Mar 1785 - 200gns match v Ulysses (con 13lbs); 2 Apr 1785 - 300gns match v Fortitude; 19 Apr 1785 - 50gns match v Taylor (con 5lbs)

16 Apr 1784 - 3rd 50gns each stakes (5/1, to Imperator 2/1 and Ulysses 6/5); 5 May 1784 - unplaced Jockey Club Plate [4yo division] (to Spectre); 6 Jul 1784 - 2nd King's Plate Ipswich (to Chance); 1785:- 3 defeats

Imported to the United States in May 1788; sire of the useful stallion Tippoo Saib and of Miller's Damsel, an outstanding racemare and dam of the great racehorse American Eclipse, but Messenger gained his enduring legacy as the famed foundation stallion of the Standardbred

Died of colic 28 January 1808, aged 28

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