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and trotting bred), from a dam that has no known crosses except trot- 

 ting and thoroughbred, got eight pacers under 2 124, the dams of several of 

 which are by Hambletonian horses. Ajax, by Hambletonian, from Dolly 

 Mills by American Star, has got six pacers with records of 2 -.25 or better, 

 against three trotters of slower records. Gambetta Wilkes, by George Wilkes, 

 from dam by Vermont and grandam by Cannon's Whip, having no known blood 

 but trotting or thoroughbred excepting what might come through the dam of 

 Vermont, got eleven pacers with records from 2:12^ to 2 125, against nine 

 trotters of records from 2 124 to 2 128 ; and these pacers mostly from dams 

 by trotting-bred sires. It will be seen by referring to the Babbitt Horse, 

 son of Woodbury Morgan, that he got much pacing stock. 



These illustrations might be indefinitely extended, but enough are here 

 produced to show that because a horse is a pacer, or a family of horses are 

 pacers, it does not follow that they have no trotting inheritance. On the 

 contrary, they may be very largely trotting-bred. Undoubtedly, if so, as a 

 rule, the more easily will their gait, or that of their offspring, change to the 

 trotting gait. And in this Dansereau family, the most renowned by far of 

 all the pacing blood in Canada, this tendency to produce the trotting gait 

 is very marked. It is illustrated in the most famous son of Pilot, Pilot, Jr., 

 which was a trotter himself and got trotters ; in Columbus, that was both 

 pacer and trotter, and Young Columbus, that got only trotters ; in Petit 

 Coq or Beppo, Live Oak, Frank Pierce, Black Diamond and their get, 

 which were among the fastest trotters of their day, and all of which were 

 bred at Vercheres, or near there, and largely inbred to the Dansereau blood. 



With this introduction we will next proceed to give the history of Pilot, 

 that may fairly be considered a leading, if not the leading, representa- 

 tive of the Province of Quebec Pacer ; and, in doing this, we shall give the 

 history of the Dansereau breed, from which to a very large extent the 

 Canadian pacer and trotter, of 1820 to 1860, descended. 



