EARLY HORSE HISTORY CANADA. 



through Prince Edward County, and he stopped one day and 

 night in each week at the house of Stephen Niles, and during 

 that season Mr. Howard bred his chestnut mare to this horse, 

 and, as already said, the produce was Tippoo. This black colt 

 passed into the hands of Mr. Wilcox, who gave him his name, 

 and he afterward passed through several other hands before he 

 reached Mr. Morden about 1826, and he died ten years later from 

 the effects of a kick. As the horse Scape Goat was brought from 

 Narragansett Bay, and as he was a remarkably fast pacer, there 

 can be no mistake in calling him a "Xarragansett Pacer." He 

 was considerably larger than the average of that tribe, but this 

 does not vitiate his title to a place in that family. It seems he 

 was only kept in Prince Edward County the one season, and his 

 owner, not being satisfied with the extent of his earnings, took 

 him back to Rhode Island. Thus, the horse that has been 

 proudly designated as "Canada's Messenger," was the son of a 

 Xarragansett pacer. In his younger days, Tippoo paced like his 

 sire, but as he grew older the trotting gait was more fully 

 developed. 



It is safe to say that the immediate progeny of Tippoo were 

 numerous, and it is safe to say that some of them, either as trot- 

 ters or pacers, were fast for their day, but it must be confessed 

 that we know very little about the way they were bred. One son 

 was called Sportsman, but nothing is known of his dam and very 

 little of the horse himself beyond the fact that he was the sire of 

 the roan gelding Tacony, that trotted some great races about 

 1853, and made a record of 2:27. This horse had a son called 

 Young Sportsman, that was more widely known as "the Sager 

 Horse," and his horse became the sire of the trotting mare 

 Clara, or Crazy Jane, as she was at one time called, that made a 

 record of 2:27 in 1867. Beyond these two representatives of the 

 Sportsman line, I have not been able to go. It has been claimed 

 that another son of Tippoo, called Wild Deer, was the sire of the 

 Sager Horse, but it does not seem to be well sustained. There 

 was a son called Wild Deer, and several others that have been 

 mentioned by turf writers, but no particulars of any value have 

 been given. 



Warrior, or Black t Warrior, as he is sometimes called, was a 

 brown horse and not a black, as his latter name would imply. 

 He was a son of old Tippoo and his dam was a black mare owned 

 and ridden by an officer in an English regiment, known as the 



