210 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



above all other qualities; but go where you will 

 among livery-stable keepers or horse-railroad 

 managers and ask them what type of horse they 

 have found most profitable to use and wear out 

 on the road, and they will almost invariably 

 answer, "The old-fashioned Morgan." 



The Bashaivs, another popular family of trot- 

 ters, are very closely related to the Clays and 

 Patchens, having a common ancestry in Young 

 Bashaw, who was the sire of the Andrew Jack- 

 son above referred to. Young Bashaw was by 

 the imported Bashaw (heretofore mentioned in 

 the pedigree of Henry Clay), his dam was by a 

 thoroughbred sire, and his grandam was by im- 

 ported Messenger. The most celebrated of the 

 Bashaw family proper come through Long 

 Island Black Hawk, who was by Andrew Jack- 

 son, out of a mare by Mambrino, son of Mes- 

 senger. Through him we have Green's Bashaw 

 (so well known in the west), the Mohawks, and 

 many others of note. 



The Pilots: The blood of the old black pacer 

 Pilot, who was of French - Canadian ancestry, 

 has mingled kindly with our best trotting 

 strains, and many of our very best and fastest 

 trotters trace to him, mainly through his son 

 Pilot Jr. (a horse owned for many years by the 

 late K,. A. Alexander, of Kentucky), out of a 

 mare that was nearly thoroughbred. Old Cop- 

 perbottom, also a Canadian pacer; Hiatoga, a 



