CHAPTEE XXVI. 



THE BLUE BULL AND OTHER MINOR FAMILIES. 



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

 The Cadmus 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. 



BLUE BULL, the real head of this family, was one of the most 

 remarkable horses that this or any other country has produced. 

 He was a light chestnut, just a little over fifteen hands high, 

 with one hind pastern white and a star in his forehead. He was- 

 strongly built and his limbs were excellent, except perhaps a 

 little light just below the knee. He was foaled 1858 and died 

 July 11, 1880. He was bred by Elijah Stone, of Stone's Cross- 

 ing, Johnson County, Indiana. For a time he was owned by 

 Lewis Loder and Daniel Dorrel, before he passed into the hands 

 of James Wilson, of Rushville, Indiana, who kept him many years 

 and whose property he died. At one time he stood at the 

 head of the list of all trotting sires in the world, and yet he 

 could not trot a step himself, but he could pace amazingly fast, 

 and it was claimed he could pace a quarter in thirty seconds. 

 He was the first and only horse that was ever able to snatch the 

 scepter from the great Hambletonian family, but after a brief 

 reign of a couple of years he had to surrender it again to that 

 family, where, from present appearances, it is destined to remain. 



The breeding of this horse is very obscure, and after we have 

 told all that is known about it we will not have given very much 

 information. He was got by a large dun pacing horse that was 

 known as Pruden's Blue Bull, and he by a blue roan horse 

 known as Herring's Blue Bull, or Ohio Farmer. The latter was 

 taken to Butler County, Ohio, from Chester County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and it has been said, without confirmation, that he was of 

 Chester Ball stock. He was a large, strong farm horse, a natural 

 pacer, as were many of his progeny, and dun and roan colors were: 

 very prevalent among them. He died the property of Mr. Mer- 



