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probably out of a Cannuck mare, but his sire was Black Warrior, 

 and he by an imported English horse. 



Some very good colts have been bred out of Cannucks by good 

 trotting stallions. Thus the celebrated sons of Rysdyk's Hamble- 

 tonian, Bruno and the Brother of Bruno, and their full sister 

 Brunette, are out of a Canadian mare. At three years old Bruno 

 made the astonishing time of 2m. 39s. in harness. At four years 

 old, 2m. 30s. and 2m. 34s. At six years old he trotted to the 

 pole with Brunette, seven years old, on the Fashion Course in 2m. 

 35*s. 



Gift, a chestnut gelding by Mambrino Pilot, was out of a small 

 pacing Cannuck. At four years old he received five forfeits, and 

 challenged, through the Spirit of the Times, any colt of the same 

 age to trot in harness or to wagon for $1000, without being accepted. 

 Though these colts are out of Canadian mares, it must be considered 

 that the mares themselves were not very fast, and that Rysdyk's 

 Hambletonian and Mambrino Pilot are the best two trotting foal 

 getters in the world. The bay stallion St. Lawrence, the sire of 

 several fast trotters, was a Canadian, and one of the best of his 

 breed. He died at Kalamazoo in 1858. There is one other horse 

 deserving especial notice as a progenitor of trotters, in whose veins 

 no blood of Messenger can be found, though his pedigree is too 

 obscure to warrant the assertion that none existed there. Black 

 Hawk, often called Vermont Black Hawk to distinguish him from 

 the equally celebrated Long Island Black Hawk, and also called 

 Hill's Black Hawk, was of Morgan stock on his sire's side ; being 

 a son of Sherman, one of the best sons of Justin Morgan, the 

 founder of the Morgan family. The dam of Black Hawk was 

 raised in New Brunswick, and nothing is known of her pedigree. 

 Black Hawk was foaled in 1833 at Greenland, N. H. At four 

 years old he was sold to Lowell, Mass., where he was used as a 

 carriage horse for seven years. He then became the property of 

 David Hill, of Bridport, Vt., where he acquired great fame; beget- 

 ting more high priced colts than any other horse of his day. He 

 had remarkable power in propagating his own characteristics, and 

 his stock were uniformly stylish, spirited harness horses, many of 

 them fast and some of them among the fastest. Another history 

 of his pedigree mades him the son of a Canadian named Paddy ; 

 and still another declares him a veritable native of Canada, though 

 not a pure Cannuck. The story, as f it was given the writer by 

 Mr. Lucien Bechard, a Canadian horse dealer, is as follows : An 

 old Canadian Frenchman engaged in smuggling tobacco from the 

 States, bought there and took home with him a brown mare with 

 foal. In due time she had a bay colt, that at two years old begot 

 Black Hawk out of a little gray mare not over 14 hands high. 

 The fortunate possessor of the black colt was a widow who lived 



