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Louisville, Kentucky. He was kept a number of years about 

 Lexington, Kentucky, by Dr. Herr, Mr. Bradley, and perhaps 

 others, and always advertised as "by Pilot (the pacer), dam 

 Nancy Pope, grandam Nancy Taylor." Nobody then ever pre- 

 tended to know what horse was the sire of either Nancy Pope or 

 Nancy Taylor. He was then owned by the parties who afterward 

 sold him to Mr. Alexander, and it is evident they did not then 

 know anything about the sires of these mares. Mr. Alexander 

 bought him in 1858, and immediately his "pedigree maker' 7 

 furnished the sires of these two mares; Nancy Pope was given as 

 by Havoc, son of Sir Charles, and Nancy Taylor as by imported 

 Alfred. The controversy about this pedigree was long and 

 sharp, the one side, headed by the modern management at Wood- 

 burn, as usual laboring to sustain the infallibility of the Wood- 

 burn catalogues, and the other to reach the exact truth, what- 

 ever it might be. The Board of Censors of the National Breeders 7 

 Association sent out a call for information on certain abstract 

 points and finally reached a decision as follows: (1) That Havoc, 

 the reputed sire of Nancy Pope, the dam of Pilot Jr., died in 

 1828. (2) That Nancy Pope was not foaled till 1832. (3) That 

 the breeding of Nancy Taylor, the dam of Nancy Pope, was un- 

 known. These dates were fixed by undoubted evidence, and, as 

 afterward developed, another might have been added with equal 

 authenticity. Imported Alfred, the reputed sire of Nancy Tay- 

 lor, was not imported till several years after Nancy Taylor was 

 foaled, and thus it was clearly shown by the absolutely insupera- 

 ble difficulties of dates that both the sires inserted in the pedi- 

 gree were nothing more than very stupid fictions. 



Edwin Forrest seems to have held second place in the list of 

 stallions in the Woodburn Stud at that period, and the remote 

 extensions of his pedigree were also fictitious. His grandam 

 was represented to be by Duroc, the famous son of imported 

 Diomed, and his great-grandam by imported Messenger. The 

 first two crosses were technically inacurately stated, but the 

 second two, as given here, were purely fictitious. 



Norman, the third stallion in the catalogue, had his sire cor- 

 rectly given as the Morse Horse, but his dam was given as by 

 Jersey Highlander and his grandam as by Bishop 7 s Hamble- 

 tonian, son of Messenger, both of which were wholly fictitious. 

 His dam was by a horse called Magnum Bonum, a representative 

 of a family of that name, and that is all that is known of his 



