ORIGIN OF THE PACERS. 95 



Smuo-o-ler, Pocahontas and all the Cadmus family came from Iron's 

 Cadmus, by Cadmus, son of American Eclipse — dam by Florizel, a 

 son of Diorded. This Cadmus family embraces several other sons of 

 Iron's Cadmus, and, in addition, the stallion Toronto, whose dam was a 

 daughter of the first Cadmus. He stood in Ohio for awliile, and was 

 taken thence to Canada, where he died, leaving produce there strongly 

 resemblino- the stock left in Ohio. 



Flora Belle was at first a pacer, and possesses the pacmg conformation 

 in marked degree. She was of the Uwharie stock — a family that is 

 in-and-in-bred in the Diomed blood. 



The Hiatogas, another Ohio pacing family, came from a Virginia 

 stock, the dam being by Diomed himself. The first Tuckahoe found 

 in the stud-book is l^y Florizel, son of Diomed, and this suggests the 

 origin of another Ohio family of pacers that all came out in the end 

 trotters, and form so many crosses in pacing and trotting pedigrees. 

 The Blue Bulls came from a blue roan of that name in Southern Ohio, 

 and the Dun pacers of that part of the same State have been so 

 numerous as to suggest that they all had a similar origin. In most 

 cases they are directly traceable to saddle horses of thoroughbred 

 descent that came into that State from Virginia, and leave little doubt 

 of the lines of blood from which they originated. 



The Columbus family came from a horse from Canada that bore such 

 a striking resemblance to the Cadmus family, that were it not that he 

 antedated their progenitor it would very forcibly suggest to our minds 

 that they really were one family, but owing to the date of the first 

 Columbus' coming we are left in ignorance of his probable origin. He 

 was a dark chestnut horse, foaled about 1830. He had a white stripe in 

 his face, and left hind foot white nearly to the hock. He was 15f hands 

 in height, and closely and powerfully built. He was at first a pacer, but 

 afterward became a trotter and produced trotters. He did not display 

 much of the French-Canadian appearance, but had many of their quali- 

 ties. There is much to indicate that he came from a cross between that 

 race and a highly-bred or more thoroughbi'ed stock. He came from the 

 vicinity of Montreal — the place whence so many have originated — 

 and a kinship with St. Lawrence may not have been imj^robable. He 

 was taken to Vermont, and thence to Massachusetts, and afterward to 

 New York. While in Vermont he produced Smith's Coluraljus, from 

 a mare that was probably from some branch of the Vermont Hamble- 

 tonian family — and the result shows the benefits to be derived from 

 crossing these best pacers of French-Canadian blood on oiu' best bred 



