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-was afterward bred to Old Pilot, and she produced the famous 

 Pilot Jr., that was the fastest trotter from the loins of the old 

 pacer. Pilot, Jr. took the diagonal form of the trot from his 

 dam and never paced. It is worthy of noting that Nancy Taylor 

 and Nancy Pope mother and daughter produced old Pilot's 

 fastest pacer and fastest trotter. 



PILOT JR. (ALEXANDER'S) was a grey horse, foaled 1844, "got 

 by old Pacing Pilot; dam Nancy Pope, grandam Nancy Taylor." 

 This is the literal version of his pedigree as given by his first 

 owners and as given by W. J. Bradley and others who had him 

 in charge year after year in the region of Lexington, according 

 to the different advertisements, and no change ever appeared till 

 the horse was bought and taken to Woodburn Farm. Then, for 

 the first time we learned that Nancy Pope was got by Havoc, 

 thoroughbred son of Sir Charles, and that Nancy Taylor was got 

 by Alfred, an imported horse. This was not the work of Mr. R. 

 A. Alexander, an honorable man, but the work of the profes- 

 sional pedigree manufacturer, who exploited his inventive skill 

 very widely through the early catalogues of that great establish- 

 ment. As a matter of historic fact, Pilot Jr.'s dam was Nancy 

 Pope, but nothing is known of her sire, and Nancy Pope was out 

 of Nancy Taylor, about whose pedigree nothing whatever is 

 known. But as the subject of Pilot Jr. 's pedigree is exhaus- 

 tively treated in Chapter XXIX., the details need not be 

 further dealt with here. 



The training of Pilot Jr. commenced when he was five years 

 old, and after the close of his stud seasons he was kept at it, in a 

 moderate way, for several years, and it is said he never mani- 

 fested any inclination to strike a pace. He was engaged in some 

 races, and his advertisement claims he won several, giving the 

 names of horses he had beaten, but the time made seems to be 

 carefully avoided. He could probably trot in about 2:50 or a 

 little better. He and all his family, so far as I can learn, were 

 willful and hard to manage in their training, and were, there- 

 fore, in danger of becoming unreliable, but they were fast for 

 their day, and dead game campaigners. There is one particular 

 in which this horse seemed to surpass nearly all others and that 

 was in his power to eliminate the running instinct and to plant 

 the trotting instinct in his progeny from running-bred mares. 

 It is doubtless true that many of those mares, so classed, were 

 only running bred on paper; but the fact still remains, and it is 



