POCAHONTAS. 223 



noble horse Grey Eagle — most sum/ptuous animal, as well as the 

 fastest of the day. 



Pocahontas is a rich chestnut mare, nearly sixteen hands in 

 height, with a superb crest, and the highest and thinnest withers 

 I have seen in America. She was foaled in 1846, and was con- 

 sequently eight years old at the time of her matches, which 

 came off at New Orleans. 



She is, as her appearance shows, very highly bred. She 

 was got by a thoroughbred horse, well known in Ohio, and fa- 

 mous as a getter of fine and fast road stock, under the name of 

 Shepherd's Cadmus — a chestnut horse by American Eclipse, 

 dam Di. Yernon by Florizel, g. d. by Ogle's Oscar, gd. by 

 Hero, &c. 



Florizel was an imported horse by the famous Florizel, out 

 of a Cygnet mare, gd. by Cartouch, g. gd. Ebony, g. g. gd. Old 

 Ebony, by Basto, &c. 



"Ogle's" Oscar was by imp. Gabriel, dam Yixen by old 

 Medley, gd. Penelope by Yorick, gd. by old Kanter, g. ga. by 

 Gift, &c. 



Hero was by old Yorick, d. by Careless, &c. 



It is useless to pursue this pedigree farther, as it is one of 

 the clearest and best in America, all the horses named being of 

 undoubted blood. Cadmus, it is said, was sixteen hands high 

 and well proportioned. 



The mother of Pocahontas was a bay mare fifteen and a 

 half hands high, well put up, with powerful muscles, and a 

 natural trotter. 



She was got by imp, Shakspere ; he by Smolensko, out of 

 Charming Molly, by Rnbens, &c. 



The grand-dam of Pocahontas was a good road mare, her 

 pedigree unknown. I am indebted for these particulars to my 

 friend Dr. J. S. Unzicker, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who procured 

 them from the gentleman who first purchased her out of a 

 team, struck by her show and style. 



She is, it will be perceived, certainly three parts of pure 

 blood, and of such blood as is in but few race-horses' veins, Ame- 

 rican Eclipse, Sir Archy, Herod, Smolensko, Sorcerer, the Godol- 

 phin. I am happy to present my readers with a fine portrait of 



