240 THE MORGAN HORSE 



lars. Eureka was as nice a chestnut horse as you ever saw, fifteen hands, 

 very stylish, say one thousand pounds. No doubt but he was a Morgan. He 

 marked his stock with his own points for three or four generations. Corbeau, 

 sire of Billy Boyce, was owned in Harrodsburg. The sire of this Corbeau 

 was Canadian. I knew old Black Pilot well. He came from New Orleans, 

 paced very fast and finally struck a trot. He was another stout little Cana- 

 dian. Tom Hal stood here. There was a roan Tom Hal and a sorrel one 

 with white face. They resembled the Copperbottoms. The original Cop- 

 perbottom was about fifteen and one-half hands, thick-breasted ; a fine sort of a 

 horse. I was born in 1818 and I remember Copperbottoms as early as I 

 remember anything. Johnson brought Toronto, Canadian, to Kentucky, 

 about 1 850; a nice^made horse and a trotter. The man who brought in 

 New York Beauty brought in two other Morgan stallions. I think the Mor- 

 gan horses must have come from Canadian". 



Whence came this resemblance ? We know that the Morgan horse was 

 not derived from the Canadian pacer. If there was any relationship, the Can- 

 adian pacer must have traced to some Morgan ancestor, or they must, to 

 some extent, have had a common origin. This last is possible, but by no 

 means so probable as that the pacer traces to the Morgan. The prominence 

 of the pacer of the Province of Quebec dates from a time but little later than 

 that in which the Morgan horse was established in Vermont. His ancestors 

 certainly came largely from Vermont. His resemblance to the Morgan is 

 most pronounced, and the place of his nativity, adjoining Vermont, is sep- 

 arated therefrom only by an imaginary line. Between these two families 

 there was only one marked difference the Morgan was a trotter ; the Can- 

 adian, a pacer. 



We have not the space here for a full discussion of the Pacing Horse 

 of America. This will appear in a later work, now in preparation, which will 

 contain much valuable information on this subject gathered from widely 

 different sources. We only state here that one principal source of the 

 American pacer was the Narragansett. This famous breed sprang up in 

 Rhode Island, the last of the seventeenth century, it is said from stock im- 

 ported from Andalusia in Spain. The Andalusian horses were regarded 

 as among the best of that time, and came from the Barb and Arab. There 

 is some question whether they paced in Andalusia, but none whatever that 

 they did in Rhode Island, and with great fleetness. So, in South America, 

 there were some of the descendants of the original Spanish horses, which 

 were largely Andalusian, that became very noted for their saddle gaits. 



This family of Narragansetts was among the most famous on this conti- 

 nent for nearly a century. Stallions of the blood were distributed through 

 many of the English colonies, down to and after the time when they be- 

 came States, and possibly some of them went to Canada, though no certain 

 evidence of this appears. But it is established that many pacing mares were 

 taken to Canada from Vermont, and possibly some from other States. And from 

 this source undoubtedly came the gait of the Canadian pacer and in part his 



