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Vermont mare, presumably a descendant of Justin 

 Morgan. C. W. Kennedy, who rode Pilot in his 

 speed exhibitions in Kentucky, is on record as 

 saying that the stallion generally paced, although 

 he trotted finely. Pilot was a horse with quite a 

 temper, and in his races was driven with a breech- 

 ing with pulleys leading to his mouth. Pilot Jr. 

 trotted two races at five years old and won easily, 

 and at six years old he won at two-mile heats 

 and a race at four miles. He was a game horse, 

 a dapple gray, of style, substance, and strength ; 

 and one of the longest and most bitter contro- 

 versies in which I ever engaged was over his 

 pedigree. I held that his dam was by a thorough- 

 bred stallion. Six trotters, possessed of standard 

 speed, came from Pilot Jr., among them Pilot 

 Temple, 2.24^, who won 36 races and whose dam, 

 Madame Temple, was the dam of Flora Temple, 

 the first trotter to beat 2.20. The best produc- 

 ing son of Pilot Jr. was Bayard, sire of Kitty 

 Bayard, 2.12^, and eight other trotters and six 

 pacers. When in training he was almost as 

 much of a puller on the bit as his grandsire, 

 black Pilot. The daughters of Pilot Jr. have 

 lifted him above the rank of ordinary stallions. 

 Through them the line has been emphasized as 



