304 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



tainly is not the source of pacing families." This 

 is followed by the suggestion that the Morgan 

 horse, through general intercourse between the 

 people of Vermont and the people of the Prov- 

 ince of Quebec, was early introduced into Canada, 

 and was a strong factor in the pacing families in 

 that section. Where facts are obscure there is 

 always room for suggestion. Copperbottom, a 

 chestnut horse of 15.2, strongly built and hand- 

 some in appearance, was taken to Kentucky in 

 1816, and he was followed by Tom Hal, a roan 

 of blocky build, and later by the black horse 

 Pilot, the sire of Pilot Jr. General John B. 

 Castleman, president of the Louisville Horse 

 Show Association, and a noted breeder of saddle 

 horses, says in a recent paper: "Virginia and 

 the South Atlantic states had given much atten- 

 tion to racing, and were even then breeders of 

 the thoroughbred. The only other source of 

 importation was from Canada. There they raised 

 a hardy little horse, said to be a cross of the 

 French importations with generally such stallions 

 as could be obtained from New York and New 

 England. Whatever these Canadian horses were, 

 they had some of the qualities required for man's 

 comfort, and the Canadian had given much atten- 



