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ter, Highland Ash, by Ashland, is also a trotter, and in 1868 

 won the Spiiit of the Times Stake for three-year olds, over 

 four thousand dollars, in 2:48. Flatbush Maid, one of Mr. 

 Robt. Bonner's pair that trotted to a road wagon in 2 :26, 

 was begotten by a Chestnut pacing horse that also trotted, 

 Pocahontas is nearly thoroughbred, and was begotten by 

 Cadmus, a son of American Eclipse. She, therefore, takes 

 her wondeiftil pacing speed from Messenger, the sire of Mil- 

 ler's Damsel, who was the dam of American Eclipse. Her 

 daughter Pocahontas, Jr., by Ethan Allen, is a trotter, and very 

 fast. 



Billy Boyce, a bay gelding, and very bloodlike in his ap- 

 pearance, is by Corbeau, a horse owned near Harodsburg, 

 Ky., and the sire of several trotters. Corbeau was by a Cana- 

 dian, not known as a begetter of trotters ; but his dam was 

 by Frank, a thoroughbred, by Sir Charles, his grandam by 

 Sir Archy ; which gives Corbeau two lines of descent from 

 imported Diomed, and probabiy gives him also his trotting 

 quality. 



Boyce has a cross of the Messenger, through American 

 Eclipse, the sire of his granddam, and this gives him another 

 cross of Diomed, through Duroc, the sire of American Eclipse. 

 He is, therefore, of kindred blood with Lady Thorn, Dexter, 

 Mambrino Pilot, Kemble Jackson, Independent, John Mor- 

 gan, Peerless, and others of celebrity ; that is they all 

 combine in their pedigrees the blood of Messenger and 

 Diomed. 



These facts, a few of the many that could be cited, show 

 the close relationship between pacers and trotters. They de- 

 rive their speed from the same sources ; trotters beget 

 pacers, and pacers beget trotters ; many go fast in one gait, 

 and, after being taught the other, go equally fast in that ; so 

 that they may properly enough be classed together, and 

 designated by the common title of American Trotters. 



Though trotters are derived from so few sources as to be 

 nearly all related to all the others, there are certain families 

 that claim especial notice. 



The Abdallahs are an older family, and not less distin- 

 guished. 



The Vermont Black Hawks were once very popular, and 

 for a few years their fame quite eclipsed all other families. 



The Bashaws are a very excellent family of trotters but 

 nearly obliterated now by admixture with others. They are 

 a branch of the Messenger family that took their name from 

 an imported Arabian, but not the trotting quality. The first 



