498 PILOT AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 



in high degree. The foregoing may be said to be the common char- 

 acteristics of the descendants of Columbus, St. Lawrence and Pilot. 

 They have other points in common. They have a little too much 

 weight and thickness in the neck and in the region of the windpipe. 

 They are usiially rather thick in the jaws, and the head is not quite 

 so lean and bony as in the more highly bred families. Their brain 

 power may not be so clear and steady as that of the horse descended 

 from the blood of Messenger. Some of them have not displayed the 

 same steadiness and desperate courage, that high nerve and mental 

 quality that marks the real blood horse. But for all this, they are 

 ready and free drivers, and when properly handled, they are bold and 

 courageous. While, perhaps, lacking in some of the higher and finer 

 qualities of the blood horse, they are nevertheless a very vigorous 

 and valuable outcross, and one that harmonizes well with all other 

 bloods. 



