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to George Shepher, of Butler County, Ohio, and next to a com- 

 pany in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he made two seasons, 

 and was sold to St. Louis, Missouri, and died without further 

 service, in 1858. From birth he was double-gaited, inclining 

 more to the pace than to the trot. From unskillful handling his 

 gaits became mixed up so that it was never known whether he 

 might have been able to show any speed or not. 



Pocahontas, the pacer, was the most distinguished of his get, 

 and if there were no others of merit from her sire this one alone 

 would be sufficient to command a place in the volume. She was 

 a large, strong chestnut mare with four white legs, a white face, 

 .and a splotch of white on her belly. She was bred by John 0. 

 Dine, of Butler County, Ohio, and was foaled 1847. Her dam 

 was a very strong mare got by Probasco's Big Shakespeare, a 

 horse over sixteen hands and very heavily proportioned, a very 

 valuable farm horse with good action, many of whose tribe were 

 -disposed to pace. The grandam was also a descendant of Va- 

 lerius, that was brought to Ohio from New Jersey. Pocahontas 

 passed through several hands at very low prices and was used for 

 all kinds of heavy farming and hauling until she reached the 

 hands of L. D. Woodmansee, when her speed began to be de- 

 veloped. She was soon matched against Ben Higdon, the fast 

 pacing son of Abdallah, and beat him in 2:32. In December, 1853, 

 she was taken to New Orleans, and beat several celebrities there 

 early the next spring. Before her last race it was discovered she 

 was in foal, and some two months afterward she dropped Tom 

 Rolfe. In the autumn of 1854 she was brought to the Union 

 Course, Long Island, and it was not till June, 1855, that her 

 owners and managers could get a match with her. At last Hero, 

 the famous son of Harris' Hambletonian, met her for two thousand 

 dollars, he to harness and she to wagon. In the first heat she 

 distanced the gelding in- 2:17-J, and it was maintained by her 

 driver that she could have gone at least five seconds faster, if it 

 had been necessary. For racing purposes she was no longer of 

 any value, for nothing would start against her. She was then 

 sold and became a brood mare at Boston, Massachusetts, and 

 produced the sires Tom Rolfe and Strideway, Pocahontas, 2:26f. 

 and the dams of May Morning, 2:30, and Nancy, 2:23|, thus rank- 

 ing as a great brood mare. 



Shanghai Mary, that has become so famous as the dam of 

 Green Mountain Maid, one of the very greatest of all brood 



