XXVIII 



DAVY CROCKETT AND DESCENDANTS OF 

 DAVY CROCKETT AND PILOT 



DAVY CROCKETT (BLACKBURN'S) 



Brown, about 15 hands, 1000 pounds ; believed to be of the Dansereau 

 family of pacers (see Pilot). Sent from Detroit, Mich., 1837, by a wealthy 

 gentleman named Brush, in charge of a man named Dwight, to Dr. Luke 

 Blackburn, Georgetown, Ky. He was very fast, both at the pace and trot. 

 The best information of this horse that we have yet seen is contained in the 

 following letter of Dr. Luke Blackburn, which appears in "Wallace's 

 Monthly" of February, 1888 : 



"The horse known as Blackburn's Davy Crockett was sent to me from 

 Detroit, Mich., 1837, by a gentleman of great wealth named Brush, who 

 recently died in that city. The horse was placed in charge of a man by the 

 name of Dwight, who brought him across the country to Kentucky, and ar- 

 rived at Georgetown the week of the races at that place. I was attending 

 the races that week, and there first saw the horse. Dwight had with him a 

 large amount of money, and he publicly offered to bet that Crockett could 

 beat any pacing horse in the world any distance, and for any amount under 

 $10,000. In this offer he excepted Oneida Chief, who had beaten Davy 

 Crockett some time before, on the Poughkeepsie track, in the then extra- 

 ordinary time of 2 126. Davy Crockett was a beautiful brown, 14^ hands, 

 with long body, fine carriage, flowing mane and tail, and of great substance 

 and endurance. I drove him in a sulky and rode him under saddle between 

 his regular seasons. He was, without question, as fine a driving or saddle 

 horse as ever moved in harness or under a saddle. He made many seasons 

 in Woodford county, and my father sold him to a Mr. Moody, Shelby county, 

 where he died. He was the sire of the celebrated stallion Drennon, and the 

 getter of more fine saddle horses than any horse ever in Kentucky. After 

 his death it was impossible to purchase one of his colts at any price, their 

 owners holding them as priceless treasures. Crockett, in his prime, was the 

 fastest pacer and the fastest trotter in the State of Kentucky. I never knew 

 anything of his pedigree, but always considered him what might be called a 

 full-blooded Canadian ". 



J. H. Harding, Pleasureville, Ky., in a letter to the " Kentucky Stock 

 Farm ", dated Jan. 28, 1889, says : 



