496 PILOT AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 



Voltaire now stands credited with a record of 2:21:^, and fifteen 

 heats in 2:30 or better. He is in trotting condition now, and before 

 the close of 1878 will probably have oj^jjortunity to try conclusions 

 with the champion of 1877, and the defeated stallion in that contest 

 will carry away no dishonor from having appeared against an unwor- 

 thy opponent. 



The successes of Pilot Jr. and Mambrino Chief run hand in hand. 

 From daughters of Pilot Jr., Mambrino Chief achieved some of his 

 most signal successes, more particularly, however, when with the 

 blood of Pilot Jr. there were also comminjvled strains of Duroc-Mes- 

 senger blood. 



Juliet by Pilot Jr. became the dam of Mambrino Pilot, and I have 

 shoAvn his success, and that of his son, Mambrino Gift, from another 

 dauo-hter of Pilot Jr. 



Another davighter was the dam of the Mambrino Chief stallion, 

 Alcalde, a successful sire. 



Mambrino Gift, whose dam was also a daughter of Pilot Jr., was 

 confessedly one of the best trotting stallions this country has ever 

 produced. His death was a great loss to the breeding interests of the 

 country, and along with Voltaire would have furnished an outcross 

 for the closely bred Hambletonian and other Messenger families of 

 very great and positive value. 



Kate, the grandam of Almont, was by Pilot Jr., and the power 

 that Almont possesses of imparting the trotting quality to the pro- 

 duce of all classes of mares, and particularly those that are thorough- 

 bred and descended from the thoroughbred, must in part be credited 

 to this quality inherited from Pilot Jr. 



The Hambletonian blood had not that quality, and while it is true 

 that it was displayed by JNIambrino Chief in high degree, the de- 

 scendants of the black pacer seem to rival any that we have seen 

 in respect to the quality referred to. Mambrino Chief's success with 

 such mares was greatest when they partook of his own lines of blood 

 — Duroc and Messenger. Pilot Jr. was more universal in his success 

 with racing mares than was Mambrino Chief. 



The blood of Pilot Jr., crossed with that of thoroughbred mares, 

 has produced the fastest trotters and the fastest trotting sires of any 

 thus descended that we have seen in this country. In such union it 

 stands ahead of all others. 



Miss Russell, by Pilot Jr., from a thoroughbred mare, Sally Russell, 

 by Boston, is the dam of Nutwood, by Belmont, that stands at 2:23^, 

 and is the best one, by the record, that Belmont can claim. 



