CHAPTER XIV 



THE PILOT FAMILY 



ONE of the foremost of brood-mare sires is 

 Pilot Jr., a gray horse of 15.2, foaled in 1844, and 

 bred by Lugerean Gray of Jefferson County, 

 Kentucky. His sire was a black horse called 

 Pilot and his dam was Nancy Pope by Funk's 

 Havoc, second dam Nancy Taylor by Alfred. 

 In 1848 the gray horse was sold to D. Heinsohn 

 of Louisville, Kentucky, and in 1858 he passed 

 to R. A. Alexander of Woodburn, who used him 

 in the stud with such discretion as to give him 

 an enduring reputation. The horse died of apo- 

 plexy at Aurora, Illinois, April 14, 1865. There 

 has been much controversy over the breeding of 

 Pilot and his son, Pilot Jr., and at this late day 

 the precise facts cannot be established. Joseph 

 Battell, who corresponded freely and travelled 

 much in search of information, records Pilot as 

 a very dark brown, nearly black, horse of about 

 15 hands, foaled in 1853, bred by Louis Dan- 

 sereau of Contrecceur, Province of Quebec, sire 

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