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tor of several other good ones, among them the stallion Abdallah 

 Pilot, by Alexander's Abdallah. 



Norman, the sire of these two stallions, was foaled about 1845, at 

 or near Lansingburg, in the State of New York. He was by the 

 Morse Horse, so called, and his dam is stated, by the Trotting Regis- 

 ter^ to have been by Jersey Highlander, and his 2d dam by Bishop's 

 Hambletonian. 



A gentleman now living in Chicago and well known to me, says 

 that he knew Jersey Highlander in Saratoga county. New York, very 

 well; he (Mr. E.) was then sixteen years old; that the horse was then 

 about twentv vears old; that he was called a Hambletonian; that he 

 was a bay; and Mr. E. gives the name of VYm. Benton, Avho then had 

 him and mentions the names of one or more persons who sent mares 

 to him. 



The above is the reputed pedigree of Norman; and before entering 

 into that of the Morse Horse, I may say that he j^roduced two sons 

 by the nanie of Norman, Alexander's, a brown, and Bathgate's, a grey 

 — and this latter was a trotter and the sire of trotters, among others 

 the horse called General Taylor, that was taken to California and 

 there trotted thirty miles in 1 hour and 47 minutes and 59 seconds, 

 and on another occasion trotted ten miles to wagon in 29 min\ates 

 and 414^ seconds. Norman, the sire of Blackwood and Swigert, was 

 also the sire of the famous mare Lula, that, in 1875, attained a record 

 of 2:15 — second only to the renowned Goldsmith Maid — and Maj' 

 Queen, formerly Nashville Girl, that now stands with a record of 

 2:20. These remarkably fast trotters, so closely related to the sire of 

 our two stallions under consideration, show that there is a powerful 

 concentration of trotting blood of the first class near at hand. 



The sire of Norman, as before stated, was the so-called Morse Horse, 

 also sometimes called Norman. This Morse Horse was entered in the 

 Trotting Register as reputed to have been by a Norman horse from 

 France and dam by Ogden's Messenger, but this pedigree encounters 

 the same fate, at the hands of the Monthly above referred to, that 

 seems to have been shared by so many others. The pedigree of this 

 Morse Horse has been fully explored by Mr. Richards, the owner of 

 Swigert, and the facts obtained by him have, in part, been presented 

 to the public already through the above named channel. I can not 

 present these facts in more concise form than to give the substance of 

 the several statements made to Mr. Richards in regard to the jjedigree 

 under consideration. 



