MOSCOW, OK PASSE-CAKREAU. 183 



mond! the title of a game of cards, in common use among the 

 French hdbitans, who are, for the most part, inveterate gamblers. 

 I suppose that the unmeaning name, " Poscora," under which I 

 have observed that a trotting stallion has been advertised for 

 sale during the last autumn and winter, is also a misnomer for 

 Passe-carreau, though not, of course, applied to Moscow, although 

 the sound is certainly a nearer approach to the true name. 



Passe-carreau, or Moscow, was a very well-bred horse. His 

 sire was a white-footed chestnut-horse, owned and ridden by C. 

 C. S. de Bleury, of Montreal ; got by Sir Walter, he by Hickory 

 by Whip, imported, Hickory's dam Dido by imported Daredevil, 

 g. d. by Symmes' Wildair, (fee. 



Whip was by Saltram, dam by King Herod, g. d. by Oroo- 

 noko, g. g. d. by Cartouch, (fee, cfec. 



Daredevil was by Magnet, dam Hebe, by Chrysolite, g. d, 

 Proserpine, sister to Eclipse, (fee. 



Symmes' Wildair was by old Fearnought, dam by Jolly 

 Poger, out of Kitty Fisher, (fee. 



Sir Walter's dam was Nettletop, by imported Diomed, g. d. 

 Betsey Lewis, by imported Shark, g. g. d. by Lindsay's Arabian. 



This pedigree is endorsed as correct by the editor of the 

 " Spirit of the Times," vol. 13, p. 85, with this addition ; " Sir 

 Walter was owned by the late Bela Badger, Esq. ; he is des- 

 cribed to us as a horse of remarkable speed and great beauty." 



The chestnut horse of M. de Bleury, which showed much 

 blood, with a smooth coat and clean limbs, is said to have been 

 got out of a good, well-bred mare, though probably not thorough- 

 bred ; and Passe-carreau, or Moscow, was out of a " stout 

 Yankee mare of spirit and a great roadster." The correspondent 

 of the " Spirit," from whom the above information is derived, an 

 amateur and horse-breeder from Sherbrooke, C. E., also states, 

 that the dam of Passe-carreau, the Yankee mare, described 

 above, had extraordinarily large aud well-opened nostrils, which 

 descended to her son — an infallible mark of blood — and that 

 there is no French Canadian blood in his stock. 



According to this account, it is probable that the sire of 

 Passe-carreau held not less than six-eighths, or perhaps seven- 

 tenths of thorough blood, and that his dam was a half-bred mare 

 or thereabout. This would make him a very high-bred horse of 



