84 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



to the breeding of the Standardbred trotter. Suffice it 

 to mention Bonnie Scotland, Australian Trustee, Lapidis 

 and Glencoe. The influence of these was chiefly through 

 their American-bred sons and daughters. 



90. Influence of American horses. Let us now con- 

 sider the status of the horses in use on this continent as 

 road horses or trotters, about the time (1788) that Mes- 

 senger was imported. In the earliest colonial days, most 

 of the traveling was done on horseback, and a race most 

 popular for journeying this way was the Narragansett 

 pacer, bred most largely in Rhode Island. In addition, 

 this pacer was the racing horse of the people of Rhode 

 Island and Virginia as early as the last of the seventeenth 

 century. Dr. McMonagle states : " The combination of 

 these (Narragansett) with the French stock imported 

 from France to Quebec, in 1665, produced the Canadian 

 pacers. Out of that combination we have the Pilots, 

 which were taken to Kentucky and proved to be the pro- 

 ducers of some of the best trotting horses there. From 

 the same stock we have the Columbuses, which were taken 

 to Vermont, where they produced trotters of which, the 

 fastest went in 2 : 19f a daughter of Phil Sheridan, the 

 most potent sire of the family." It seems clear to the 

 above writer that the Narragansett pacer was chiefly the 

 original source of the Canadian blood so largely taken to 

 Kentucky and other states at an early day. 



Justin Morgan, the founder of the family of that name, 

 was foaled in 1793 (some authorities give it 1789), and 

 Pilot, about the first to attract the attention of the Ameri- 

 can public, was foaled about 1826. The Pilots, St. Law- 

 rences, St. Clairs, Columbuses and Copperbottoms were 

 taken from Canada at the beginning of the last century to 

 Vermont, New York, Kentucky, California and other 



