96 THE PACING ELEMENT. 



trottina: stock. Smith's Columbus is sire of many roadsters and trot- 

 ters, and has six within the 2:30 list, as follows: Ben Smith, 2:38|-; 

 Commodore Vanderbilt, 2:35; Harry Harley, 2:25f ; M\Ton Perry, 

 2:24^, a veteran of twenty-four heats; Phil Sheridan, 2:36-^; Sea 

 Foam, with twenty-one heats and a record of 2:26. A truly credita- 

 ble list. He is a bay horse, foaled 1852; his dam was Black Maria, a fast 

 trotting mare, bred in Vermont and by some claimed to be a daughter 

 of Harris' Hambletonian, the next dam being a large grey mare of 

 unknown blood. He is owned by W. W. Smith, of Mechanicsville, 

 Saratoga Co., N. Y. 



This is a record that few stallions outside of the most popular 

 families could have attained. He is a trotter himself, but bis family 

 having no gi-eat antecedent reputation as producers of trotters, he had 

 no such reputation to secure him the best of mares. With him success 

 brought reputation. However, the success of the family does not 

 stop here. 



Phil Sheridan, son of the last named Columbus, was foaled in 1863. 

 His dam was a large, strong, black mare called Black Fly, bred in 

 Canada, and by a son of Tippoo, grandam also bred in Canada by 

 a son of Black Jack. 



Phil Sheridan was bred and is owned by Robert Dalzell. Waddins-- 

 ton, N. Y. He has to his credit the following : Adelaide, 2.21-2-, with 

 39 heats in 2.30 or better; Commonwealth, 2,22, and 25 heats; Hiram 

 Woodruff, 2:25, and 9 heats; Tom Malloy, 2:27. To this family, 

 thus starting on the successful highway toward distinction, we may 

 look for an excellent cross for some of our other highly-bred trotting 

 families. Two such stallions from such a quarter are a promise of a 

 successful career to the family. 



Occident, a trotter, was a grandson of St. Clair, a brown horse that 

 paced in 2:35, and of his blood nothing is known, but the number 

 and quality of the pacers and trotters descended from him go far to 

 show that he had some quality himself. 



The Copper-bottoms were about the earliest of the Kentucky pacers, 

 and probably came from one of that name that was a Canadian; and 

 the Pilots, Tom Crowder, the Red-bucks, Daniel Booue, Davy Crock- 

 ett, Drennon, Canadian Chief and the other Crocketts, and Corbeaus, 

 were doubtless all of Canadian origin. The readiness with which 

 all of these crossed with the part-bred saddle horses descended 

 from the thoroughbred families, is as noteworthy as the further 

 fact in breeding, which has recently assumed so much importance, 



