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ber's Tom Thumb, a fast horse that looked like a Canadian and 

 begot trotters. 



Grolddust, a chestnut, foaled about 1855, and owned by L. L 

 Dorsey, Lexington, Ky., has begotten quite a numerous family of 

 trotters considering his age. He is a very bloodlike horse, a fast 

 walker and a fast trotter. He takes his speed from his sire, Ver- 

 mont Morgan, whose dam was by Cock-of-the-Rock, he by Duroc, 

 a son of Diomed. Cock-of-the-Rock's dam was Romp, a full sister 

 to Miller's Damsel, by Messenger. On his dam's side he has some 

 Arabian and thorough-bred blood that shows in the style and form 

 of his colts. See Table IV. 



The Pilots, another Kentucky family, are descended from the 

 Old Pacer Pilot, and are best represented by one of his sons, 

 Alexander's Pilot, Jr., and his descendants. Pilot, Jr., owned by 

 R. A. Alexander, Lexington, Ky., is a black, and was foaled about 

 1845. His dam was Nancy Pope, by Havoc, a grandson of Diomed, 

 and thus he takes the trotting from both sides, and in excellent 

 combination. (See pedigree, in the pedigree of Mambrino Pilot, 

 Table II.) He is the sire of John Morgan, Jim Rockey, Tackey, 

 Pilot Temple, Dixie, Tattler, and many more. John Morgan was 

 the closest competitor of Flora Temple in her best days, and every 

 way one of the best trotters in the country. His dam was by 

 Medoc, a son of American Eclipse, and he thus had another cross 

 of Diomed, and one of Messenger. Tackey has trotted in 2m. 

 28s. ; Pilot Temple, out of the dam of Flora Temple, trotted in 

 1868 in 2m. 31s. ; Jim Rockey trotted in 1859 in 2m. 32s.; and 

 Tattler, 5 years old, trotted in 1868 in 2m. 26s., a performance 

 that probably has never been equalled by any horse of the same 

 age. The famous twenty-miler, John Stewart, is a descendant of 

 Old Pilot, through Tom Wonder and Tom Crowder the last, a 

 son of the old pacer. 



A modern family, that rivals the Hambletonians, is composed of 

 the descendants of Mambrino Chief a horse that was bred in the 

 East, and taken to Kentucky by James B. Clay in 1854, where 

 he died in 1861. His sire was Mambrino Paymaster, by Mam- 

 brino, the best son of Messenger in the trotting line. (See pedi- 

 grees of Lady Thorn and Mambrino Pilot, Tables IV. and IX.) 

 His fast progeny is very numerous and very famous, and includes 

 Lady Thorn, Bay Chief, Mambrino Pilot, Ericsson, Mambrino 

 Patchen, Brignoli, Kentucky Chief, Ashland, &c. 



Lady Thorn stands first among all trotters now in public, and 

 second only to Dexter and Flora Temple. Her pedigree and her 

 performances are in perfect accord ; the speed and bottom both 

 represented by three lines of descent from Messenger, and three 

 from Diomed ; herself almost thorough-bred. 



Bay Chief, unfortunately shot by guerrillas, trotted half a mile 



