270 THE MORGAN HORSE 



" Joseph Dansereau lived about a mile and a half from his brother Louis. 

 The last stallion from the Louis Dansereau black mare was sold to O'Rourke, 

 a horse-dealer at Montreal ; it was bred by Louis Dansereau. This was a 

 very pretty black pacer. O'Rourke could, not speak a word of French. 

 Louis Dansereau died about 1859. Vassar bought one of the Dansereau 

 horses. The fastest horses we had were pacers ". 



Eusebe St. Onge of Contre-Coeur, born in 1806, said: "I am a 

 nephew of Louis Dansereau. Louis Dansereau traded in Montreal a big 

 farm horse for an old black pacing mare. This mare had a black mare colt, 

 and from this younger mare he raised twelve foals, nine of them stallions. 

 The first fast pacers in this town were bred by Louis Dansereau. I was 

 quite a boy when my uncle Dansereau got this black mare. I remember 

 when drawing hay with my father, when I was a boy, seeing the colt of this 

 American mare. 



" I remember Chicouagne breaking the colt that he bought of Louis Dan- 

 sereau and afterwards sold to Joseph Dansereau. This colt was hard to drive 

 and very swift. Joseph Dansereau took him to Montreal and sold him. He was 

 black, about fifteen hands, and I think was got by the Vassar Horse. Louis 

 Dansereau afterwards raised another, black with two white feet behind, a little 

 larger, and the fastest horse at Montreal or anywhere. He raced him at 

 Vercheres, St. Hyacinthe, Montreal, Sorel, and all about. I could not tell 

 what his sire was, but think it was one of Dansereau's colts ; he kept breed- 

 ing to his own. I raised two colts from this horse, that I sold to a man at 

 Three Rivers. I sold the mare colt for two hundred dollars, and understood 

 that she was sold for two thousand dollars. She both trotted and paced. I 

 was about forty when I raised these colts. 



" I remember the Vassar Horse well when he was a colt. I was about 

 twenty I think. I think I was only seven or eight when I first saw a colt of 

 Louis Dansereau's American mare. I think the Vassar Horse was the first 

 of the stallions raised by Dansereau from the black mare. I think the sec- 

 ond was the one sold to Chicouagne and by him to Joseph, sometimes called 

 Ouillett Dansereau, a black horse that was quick, 'vitejVtte, vitc' '. Duhamel 

 of St. Ours (after his marriage) raised a colt from this Joseph Dansereau 

 stallion that both paced and trotted, and that he kept quite a while. Du- 

 hamel afterwards left St. OurG. The Vassar Horse was the first fast pacer that I 

 remember. I was married in 1832, but was unmarried when Joseph Dan- 

 sereau had the black horse. He sold him to an American for what he thought 

 then a large price. I remember the Gravelin Horse, a fine large horse of 

 mixed color. I think I was about twenty. Louis Dansereau had another, 

 after the Vassar Horse, that was called Whitefoot, that was larger than the 

 Vassar Horse, and which he sold to Americans. Dansereau sold one to 

 Fiset, one to Le Bousset, one to Dessond, and one to Giard of Contre- 

 Cceur, now of L'Assomption ". At a second interview M. St. Onge thought 

 the Joseph Dansereau black pacer, bred by Louis, might have been got by 

 the La Bont Horse. 



