492 PILOT AND niS DESCENDANTS. 



witch, dam of Mambrino Gift, 2:20, and he by Mambrino Pilot, 2:27-^, 

 out of Juliet, another daughter. Manibriuo Pilot is sire of Hannis, 

 2:19:1^, Mambrino Gift, as above stated, and Morning, 2:30, and many 

 others. (The asterisks indicate private time, not of record.) 



The foregoing hasty retrospect, however, does injustice to the real 

 greatness of Pilot Jr. He was the sire of 



WOODBURN PILOT. 



Woodburn Pilot was a large black horse, over sixteen hands high. 

 His datn was a grey mare by Mambrino Chief, and the grandam by the 

 old Indiana pacing stallion Redbuck, son of Copperbottom. He was 

 a horse of immense substance and powerful trotting action. He was 

 foaled the property of E. S. Wadsworth, Esq., of Chicago, and was 

 sold by him for $10,000, at six years of age, to the Vermont Horse 

 Stock Comj^any. 



He was able to trot in 2:28, but kept constantly in the stud, where 

 if he had had proper selection of mares he would have proved a great 

 success. 



His son Argonaut will not lower the standard of the family in 

 all probability — from present indications-^but he must tell his own 

 story. 



ARGONAUT. 



He is a dark bay stallion, foaled in 1872. His dam was Minnie 

 Clyde, by Toronto, son of St. Lawrence ; second dam was the sister of 

 Jim Porter, by Downing's Bay Messenger; third dam Madam Porter, 

 by Roman's Orphan Boy; fourth dam by Bertrand ; fifth dam by 

 Sir Archy. Roman's Orphan Boy, by Orphan Boy, son of American 

 Eclipse. The dam of Toronto was by Cadmus, the thoroughbred son 

 of Eclipse. If he shall fall behind the first stallion of his family he 

 will not equal the expectations of those who know him best. 



TATTLER. 



I have referred to the blood composition of Pilot Jr., and the 

 breeding process by which he was rendered the most efficient and 

 impressive sire we have yet seen with mares of racing blood. 



Pilot Jr. was the sire of the noted trotter Medoc or John Morgan. 

 His dam was a Duroc- Messenger mare. She was named Croppy, and 

 ■was by Medoc, the great son of American Eclipse, her dam by Rattler, 

 her second dam by imp. Spread Eagle, from a noted mare sent by 

 Chief Justice John Marshall into Kentucky, and said to be thorough- 



