CONTENTS. XL 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



THE BLUE BULL AND OTHER MINOR FAMILIES. 



PAGES 



Blue Bull, the once leading sire His lineage and history His family 

 rank The Cadiuus family Pocahontas Smuggler Tom Rolfe 

 Young Rolfe and Nelson The Tom Hal Family The various Tom 

 Hals Brown Hal The Kentucky Hunters Flora Temple Edwin 

 Forrest The Drew Horse and his descendants The Hiatogas 352-365 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



THE BLACK HAWK, OR MORGAN FAMILY. 



Characteristics of the Morgans History of the original Morgan The 

 fabled pedigree The true Briton theory Justin Morgan's breeding 

 hopelessly unknown Sherman Morgan Black Hawk His disputed 

 paternity His dam called a Narragansett Ethan Allen His great 

 beauty, speed, and popularity The Flying Morgan claim baseless 

 His dam of unknown blood His great race with Dexter Daniel 

 Lambert, the only successful sire of the Black Hawk line 366-389- 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



THE ORLOFF TROTTER, BELLFODNDER AND THE ENGLISH HACKNEY. 



Orloffs, the only foreign trotters of merit Count Alexis Orloff, founder of 

 the breed Origin of the Orloff Count Orloff began breeding in 1770 

 Smetanka, Polkan, and Polkan's son, Barss, really the first Orloff 

 trotting sire The Russian pacers Their great speed Imported Bell- 

 founder His history and characteristics Got little speed His 

 descendants The English Hackney Not a breed, but a mere type 

 The old Norfolk trotters Hackney experiments in America Supe- 

 riority of the trotting-bred horse demonstrated in show ring con- 

 tests 390-408 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



INVESTIGATION OF DISPUTED PEDIGREES. 



Tendency to misrepresentation The Bald Galloway and Darley Arabian 

 Godolphin Arabian Early experiences with trotting pedigrees Mr. 

 Backman's honest methods Shanghai Mary Capt. Rynders and 

 Widow Machree Woodburn Farm and its pedigree methods Victim- 

 ized by "horse sharps" and pedigree makers Alleged pedigree of 

 Pilot Jr. conclusively overthrown Pedigrees of Edwin Forrest, 

 Norman, Bay Chief and Black Rose Maud S. pedigree exhaustively 

 considered Captain John W. Russell never owned the mare Maria 

 Russell The deadly parallel columns settle it 409-431 



CHAPTER XXX. 



INVESTIGATION OF DISPUTED PEDIGREES (Continued). 



How Belle of Wabash got her pedigree Specimen of pedigree making in 

 that day and locality Search for the dam of Thomas Jefferson True 

 origin and history of Belle of Wabash Facts about the old-time 

 gelding Prince The truth about Waxy, the grandam of Sunol 

 Remarkable attempts to make a pedigree 'out of nothing How "Jim" 



