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Corbeaus, said that he traded for a black stallion of that name, with a French- 

 man from Canada, about 1850 ; that it was a very valuable horse and looked 

 almost exactly like Black Hawk. Blazing Star, by Henry Clay, son of 

 Romeo, pacer, was thus described to us by Mr. Kistler, a leading liveryman and 

 horse-dealer of Warren, Ohio : " A compact-built fellow ; Icoked like a Mor- 

 gan. The stock was much thought of". The get of Legal Tender, Jr., an 

 inbred Davy Crockett and the leading sire of that line, is described in a let- 

 ter of his owner, J. M. Amos of Rushville, Indiana, as follows : "They have 

 fine style, like the sire ; look like the Morgan stock of horses." 



As will appear later, Pilot was described by parties who knew him in 

 Connecticut and New York, accomplished judges of horses, as very much re- 

 sembling the Morgans, especially the Black Hawk strain. 



Repeatedly we have been told by experienced horsemen in different 

 parts of the country, and especially in Kentucky, that they thought there 

 must be a relationship between the Morgan and the Canadian Pacer. Dr. C. 

 G. Lithicum, born in Macon county, Kentucky, 1820, a veterinary of long- 

 established reputation, whom we visited at his handsome home in Baltimore, 

 Maryland, in a long discussion of the horses of Kentucky and Maryland, with 

 both of which he had been very familiar, said : " I think myself that 

 the Vermont and Canadian horses were very intimately connected. There 

 is a very striking resemblance between them. The Morgans are a little more 

 plump and a little better loined ; but I have always thought there was a rela- 

 tionship between the two." 



Samuel Lee, born about 1815, one of the best known, oldest and most 

 intelligent horsemen of Baltimore, to whom we had been referred as the 

 highest authority on pedigrees and histories of horses in that locality, said : 

 " The Canadians were all smooth and blocky, much like the Morgan in 

 style. All had good heads, which they carried up ; and heavy manes and 

 tails. The Narragansetts had lighter tails and were bigger horses than the 

 Canadians. I most positively think that the Morgan and Canadian were re- 

 lated. All had quick action, and nearly every Canadian gets his head up like 

 the Morgan." 



William McCracken, an old-time horse-dealer of Lexington, Kentucky, 

 of much practical intelligence, owner of the so-called Canadian horses, Roe- 

 buck, Niagara, Jupiter and others, that appear frequently in the trotting ped- 

 igrees of Kentucky, said : 



" Roebuck was fine and stylish and carried his head up ; he was very 

 pretty. Niagara was a roan with small star and the prettiest Canadian I ever 

 saw. I bought him of a Frenchman named Hendricks, who brought him 

 here from Montreal. I sold him, about 1855, to Col. James Shelby of Missouri 

 for about one thousand dollars. He was shaped like a Morgan. I got a 

 white Canadian ; called him Jupiter. I bought him of a Frenchman that 

 came here from Canada and stayed a couple of weeks. He looked like a 

 Morgan. He got the dam of Bushwhacker 2 127. He was six years old 

 when I got him. I kept him two years and sold him for five hundred dol- 



