CHAPTER XXII 



THE BLUE BULL, ROYAL GEORGE, AND OTHER 

 SUBSIDIARY FAMILIES 



What may now be defined as a subsidiary 

 family is that of Blue Bull. This chestnut horse 

 was foaled in 1858, bred by Elijah Stone of 

 Wheatland, Indiana, and sired by a horse called 

 Pruden's Blue Bull. As a yearling he passed to 

 Daniel Dorcll of Rising Sun, Indiana, and from 

 him to James Wilson of Rushville, Indiana, who 

 developed him and his foals. He was a horse of 

 strong individuality, a fast pacer, and stamped 

 himself upon his colts. James Wilson and his 

 sons were good horsemen, and nothing by the 

 chestnut stallion that could go escaped training. 

 When such trotters from the loins of Blue Bull 

 as Will Cody, 2.19I; Zoe B., 2.20J; Silverton, 

 2.20J; Chance, 2.20! ; Richard, 2.21; Mamie, 

 2.21 J; Gladiator, 2.22^^; Elsie Good, 2.22I; and 

 Kate McCall, 2.23, were prominent in Grand 

 Circuit contests, there was quite a fever to breed 

 to Blue Bull, notwithstanding his unsatisfactory 



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