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1849 from a dam of unknown ancestry. He became very famous 

 and popular as a successful trotter and proved also to be a 

 great sire. The mare Pocahontas, by Iron's Cadmus, with a record 

 of 2:17! in 1855, bred to Ethan Allen became the dam of 

 another Pocahontas, for which Robert Bonner later on paid 

 $40,000. Among the thirty-six producing sons and daughters 

 of Ethan Allen no one attained such distinction as did Daniel 

 Lambert, himself the sire of thirty-eight trotters. The sire of 

 the dam of Daniel Lambert was Abdallah, the sire of Hamble- 

 tonian 10. Later years have shown that the Hambletonian and 

 Morgan families could be bred together to very great advantage. 

 For some years the United .States Department of Agriculture 

 has been conducting breeding operations, with the Morgan as a 

 foundation, to establish a distinct American breed of heavy har- 

 ness horses. The Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station has 

 cooperated with the government in this work. A government stud 

 at Middlebury, Vermont, has also been maintained. Thus far the 

 results of this experimental breeding have not been especially 

 noteworthy. The Morgan family in recent years has been given 

 considerable publicity, but as this has been directed toward heavy 

 harness lines it has not met with an especially favorable reception. 

 There is a register for Morgan horses, and up to 1919 three 

 volumes of the studbook have been published. To be eligible for 

 registration the pedigree of every horse recorded must trace in 

 some degree to Justin Morgan. 



The Pilot family. A black or dark-brown horse by the name 

 of Pilot first attracted attention in this family. He was foaled in 

 1828 in the province of Quebec. His sire is unknown, and his 

 dam was Jeanne d'Arc, by Voyager. When eighteen months 

 old he was taken to Connecticut and in 1830 to New York. In 

 1831 he was sold to go to New Orleans and in 1832 he was 

 returned to Kentucky, where he died about 1853 on the farm of 

 Robert Bell near Henderson. Pilot was not only a pacer but 

 would also trot. His greatest son was Pilot Jr., a gray horse 

 15^ hands high, foaled in 1844, out of Nancy Polk by Funk's 

 Havoc. Pilot Jr. was a very successful sire of brood mares. 

 Bred to Sally Russell, a Thoroughbred daughter of Boston, he 

 sired Miss Russell, one of the greatest American brood mares, 



