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was sired by American Star and out of Sally Slouch, and 'she 

 was by Sir Henry. 



AMERICAN ECLIPSE had Duroc blood, but his dam was by 

 Messenger, which, with many horsemen, accounts for his success 

 in getting trotters. 



AMERICUS was of Duroc blood, by Red Jacket, and is not 

 known to have had any other trotting blood. He beat Lady 

 Suffolk in a five-mile match. 



Canada Trotters. We have spoken of the Norman im- 

 portation into Canada of the larger horses. In Lower Canada 

 .along the St. Lawrence, the horses retain the form and make of 

 the Percheron, or Norman as they were called, because of the 

 Northmen who founded the colony which brought the Norman 

 horses to Canada. They are supposed to have degenerated 

 greatly in size from that of their ancestors of 1608. They are 

 called Canucks. Their color is not regular. Their heads are 

 generally good, face dished, showing gamy disposition, necks 

 well arched, crest often heavy, bodies round and roomy, ribs so 

 sprung as to make a broad, flat back. Their legs are generally 

 good, but somewhat inclined to knee-spring, feet narrow but 

 very durable. They are short, quick steppers, with high knee 

 action; are spirited, trappy-harness horses, and long-lived. The 

 Canadian seems to have gained in pluck and spirit as much as 

 he has lost in size. 



PILOT is the most noted one that has ever come to the States. 

 He was a black pacing and trotting horse, whose descendants 

 have great endurance and aptness to trot. He is known as Old 

 Pacer Pilo-t. He was foaled in 1826. Nothing is known of his 

 breeding. He was bought of a Yankee peddler in New Orleans, 

 about 1832, for one thousand dollars, by Major 0. Dubois, and 

 was afterward sold to Mr. Heinsohn, in Louisville, Ky., and kept 

 there until 1855. 



ALEXANDER'S PILOT, JR., out of Nancy Pope by Havoc, was 

 the sire of many fast trotters : the fastest of which was 



JOHN MORGAN, out of a mare by Medoc, and he by American 

 Eclipse. The dam of Mambrino Pilot was also by Pilot, Jr., 

 and, like John Morgan, was of Messenger descent on the dam's side. 



