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hands high, with a great deal of style, substance and strength. His colts are 

 large and promising. Pilot Jr. will go into a harness stake with any stallion 

 who may make the season in Kentucky this year, and will be matched against 

 any such for five hundred dollars a side, two-mile heats in harness. 



W. J. BRADLEY ". 



In 1854 Mr. Bradley again advertises the horse : 



" The celebrated trotting stallion, Pilot Jr., will stand the ensuing 

 season at the stable of James L. Bradley, three miles and a half north of 

 Lexington, near Sandersville, at twelve dollars the season, and twenty dollars 

 to insure a mare in foal, etc. 



" Description : Pilot Jr. is ten ye*ars old this coming spring ; in color 

 is a beautiful dapple gray ; fifteen and a half hands high ; and for style, ac- 

 tion and speed will show for himself. We all know what he has done and 

 what he can do again if required. 



" Pedigree : Pilot Jr. was got by the celebrated trotting and pacing 

 horse Pilot, who was known to be the best breeder and the best horse of his 

 kind ever imported. Nancy Taylor, the dam of Pilot Jr., was got by Cad- 

 mus, who was by Sir Archy ; his grandam, old Nancy Taylor, was by Alfred, 

 and he by Medley. WM. J. BRADLEY". 



It will be perceived that in the first advertisement no pedigree is given 

 for either Young Nancy Taylor (Nancy Pope) or her dam, Nancy Taylor. 

 The next year it is stated that Young Nancy Taylor was by Cadmus, 

 son of Sir Archy, and Nancy Taylor by Alfred. Later, when the horse was sold 

 to Mr. Alexander, Young Nancy Taylor or Nancy Pope was said to be by 

 Havoc, son of Sir Archy. This would suggest that when the first adver- 

 tisement was made in 1853 nothing was known of the pedigree of the dam. 

 Before the horse was advertised in 1854 inquiry had been made which re- 

 sulted in the statement that she was by Cadmus, a son of Sir Archy, and her 

 dam by Alfred. Later it would appear that further search had shown 

 that the horse that got the mare was Havoc instea'd of Cadmus. The very 

 fact that an error had been corrected tends to show that the pedigree was 

 given in good faith and that an effort was made to prove it. At this time it 

 would have been very possible to have got both the true breeding of Nancy 

 'Pope and her dam, Nancy Taylor. It appears further that a horse Havoc, 

 said to be a son of Sir Charles, was owned by Peter Funk, a neighbor of 

 William H. Pope, from about 1824 to 1828. It also appears (see letter of 

 Charles Anderson given below) that William H. Pope had in 1828 a gray 

 filly, daughter of Nancy Taylor. The possibility, then, of this pedigree being 

 established, we think it fair to assume that it was honestly given by Mr. 

 Bradley to Mr. Alexander, and is reasonably correct, though Havoc's sire 

 may have been incorrectly stated. 



C. W. Kennedy, Montgomery, Alabama, who at one time owned a half 

 interest in Pilot Jr., said : "Pilot Jr.'s dam was a blooded mare. We knew it. 

 I knew Mr. Funk well ; he had two blooded stallions ; there was never a 

 question raised at the time about Pilot Jr.'s dam being a blooded mare. I 



