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ting record to harness at San Francisco, time 1 hour, 

 47 minutes, 59 seconds. 



Pet's dam was Dora by Red Bill, sire of the pacer 

 Longfellow. He made a record of 2:191/4 at Sacra- 

 mento, May 10, 1872. He also paced three miles to 

 wagon at Sacramento, September 7, 1869, in 7:53, 

 the world's record for that distance, and on Decem- 

 ber 31, 1869, paced four miles in 10:421/2 at San 

 Francisco. Dora's dam was a Morgan Messenger 

 mare. 



General Taylor, the sire of Pet, was a gray horse 

 foaled 1847. He was by the Morse Horse, sire of 

 Alexander's Norman whose name appears in the 

 pedigree of Bingen. His dam was the trotting mare 

 Flora which was taken from Long Island to Lansing- 

 burg, N. Y., by Morris Van Buskirk and afterwards 

 sold to Mr. Eyclesheimer of Pittstown, N. Y. Her 

 breeding was not traced. General Taylor was bred 

 by Piatt, John and Peter Eyclesheimer. He was 

 taken to Janesville, Wis., in 1850 by John and Peter 

 Eyclesheimer and from there to California in 1854. 



This horse was raced at Milwaukee, Wis., in 1852 

 and won in 2:53. He made a record of 2:48 at De- 

 troit that year. General Taylor was raced in Cali- 

 fornia from 1855 to 1866 and was in the stud in that 

 state. None of his get made records but mares by 

 him produced a number of performers, the fastest 

 being Wells Fargo 2:18iA, Lee 2:183/^, Nerea 

 2:231/2 and Lady Blanchard 2:261/4. He also got the 

 stallions Captain Hanford and Eugene Casserly as 

 well as the dams of Whippleton and Western, this 



