162 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 



settled in 1775, and so early as the year 1802 a 

 Frenchman named Michaux, travelling in this coun- 

 try on a behest from his government, reported of 

 Kentucky that " almost all the inhabitants employ 

 themselves in training and meliorating the breed of 

 horses." And he describes these horses as bemsr 

 " elegantly formed, having slim legs and well-propor- 

 tioned heads." 



Another old traveller, writing in the year 1818, 

 declares : " The horse, ' noble and generous,' is the 

 favorite animal of the Kentuckian, by whom he is 

 pampered with unceasing attention. Every person 

 of wealth has from ten to thirty of good size and 

 condition, upon which he lavishes his corn with a 

 wasteful profusion." 



Within the past few months a society has been 

 organized and a stud-book established in the interest 

 of the Kentucky saddle horse, a dozen stallions being 

 named as foundation horses. 1 About half of these 

 stallions were thoroughbred, the other half being pa- 

 cers of mixed breeding; and this fact indicates the 

 origin of the Kentucky saddler, namely, that he is a 

 cross between the pacer and the thoroughbred. Most 

 of these Kentucky pacers were of Canadian stock, 

 and they are described as " a hardy, substantial race." 

 It was from this same stock that old pacing Pilot, 

 whose son Pilot Jr. has attained reputation as a pro- 

 genitor of trotters, was descended. There is a close 



1 Their names are here put down: — Denmark, by imported 

 Hedgeford ; Brinker's Drennan, by Davy Crockett ; Sam Booker, 

 by Boyd MeNary ; John Dillard, by Indian Chief; Tom Hal; 

 Coleman's Eureka ; John Waxey, by Vanmeter's Waxey , Cabell's 

 Lexington, by Blood's Black Hawk; Copperbottom ; Stump the 

 Dealer; Texas, by Comanche; and Prince Albert, bv Frank 

 Wolford 



