480 THE HORSE. 



their speed from the same dam. Hero, the pacer, and competitor 

 of Pocahontas in her wonderful performance, was begotten by 

 Harris's Hambletonian, the sire of the trotters True John, Green 

 Mountain Maid, John Anderson, and Sontag, a mare that was at 

 first a natural pacer and afterward trotted very fast. Saltram, the 

 sire of Highland Maid, was a pacer, and his dam, Roxana, was also 

 a pacer. Highland Maid paced naturally, but was taught to trot, 

 and went very fast. At six years old she trotted against Flora 

 Temple, and lost the race by getting tired, being young, and going 

 into a pace, which was her natural and easiest gait. She won the 

 first heat in 2.29, the second in 2.27, but was distanced in the 

 third. Highland Lass, a daughter of Highland Maid, was a fast 

 trotter, and died in 1865. Her daughter, Highland Ash, by 

 Ashland, is also a trotter, and in 1868 won the Spirit of the 

 Times Stake for three-year olds, over four thousand dollars, in 

 2.48. Flatbush Maid, one of Mr. Robt. Bonner's pair that trotted 

 to a road wagon in 2.26, was begotten by a chestnut pacing horse 

 that also trotted. Pocahontas is nearly thorough-bred, and was 

 begotten by Cadmus, a son of American Eclipse. She, therefore, 

 takes her wonderful pacing speed from Messenger, the sire of Mil- 

 ler's Damsel, who was the dam of American Eclipse. Her daughter, 

 Pocahontas, Jr., by Ethan Allen, is a trotter and very fast. 



.Billy Boyce, a bay gelding, and very bloodlike in his appear- 

 ance, is by Gorbeau, a horse owned near Harodsburg, Ky., aud 

 the sire of several trotters. Corbeau was by a Canadian, not 

 known as a begetter of trotters; but his dam was by Frank, a 

 thorough -bred, by Sir Charles, his granddam by Sir Archy ; 

 which gives Corbeau two lines of descent from imported Diomed, 

 and probably gives him also his trotting quality. , 



Boyce has a cross of the Messenger, through American Eclipse, 

 the sire of his granddam, and this gives him another cross of 

 Diomed, through Duroc, the sire of American Eclipse. He is, 

 therefore, of kindred blood with Lady Thorn, Dexter, Mambrino 

 Pilot, Kemble Jackson, Independent, John Morgan, Peerless, and 

 others of celebrity; that is, they all combine in their pedigrees 

 the blood of Messenger and Diomed. 



These facts, a few of the many that could be cited, show the 

 close relationship between pacers and trotters. They derive their 

 speed from the same sources; trotters beget pacers, and pacers 

 beget trotters ; many go fast in one gait, and, after being taught 

 the other, go equally fast in that; so that they may properly 

 enough be classed together, and designated by the common title 

 of American Trotters. 



Though trotters are derived from so few sources as to be nearly 

 all related to all the others, there are certain families that claim 

 especial notice. 



