1 30 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



unknown; dam Jeanne d'Arc, bred by Louis 

 Dansereau, got by Voyager that was foaled the 

 property of Pierre Fisette of Contrecceur, from 

 a mare that he traded for with a Yankee about 

 181 1 ; second dam a black pacer, described as 

 active but not very fleet, that Dansereau traded 

 for at Montreal about 18 14 with a Yankee team- 

 ster. Pilot was sold when 18 months old and 

 taken to Montreal in 1839, from which place he 

 was sold for $150 to Elias Lee Rockwell, who 

 took him to Stafford, Connecticut, in the fall of 

 1829. In August, 1830, Rockwell led the horse 

 behind a peddler's wagon to Norwich, New York, 

 and thence to New Orleans, pacing him in con- 

 tests along the route. In June, 183 1, Pilot was 

 sold to Major O. Dubois of New Orleans, for 

 $1000, and in the early part of 1832 he passed 

 to Heinsohn and Poe of Louisville, Kentucky. 

 In 1850 the stallion passed to Robert Bell of 

 Louisville, who sent him to his farm near Hen- 

 derson, Kentucky, where he died about 1853. 

 It is certain that Pilot was taken to New Orleans 

 by a Yankee peddler who sold him to Major 

 Dubois, but there is much conjecture about the 

 rest of the story. The suggestion of Mr. Battell 

 is that the stallion derived his excellence from a 



