DESCENDANTS OF PILOT 



795 



Races won, 44. Races lost, 50. Total races, 94. 



Sire Ole Bull Jr., i. 



Second dams of Abdailah Boy 2 :2^%, Lizzie 2d 2 123 J /, Sprague Pilot 2:24. 



OLE BULL JR 



Black, 1 6 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled about 1855 ; bred by Sim B. Lewis 

 Owensboro, Ky. ; got by Ole Bull, son of Pilot : dam said to be by James 

 Lewis' Sterling, son of Walker's Sterling, by imported Sterling ; and 2d dam 

 thoroughbred. Owned by breeder. A pacer, but colts mostly trotters. 



Second dam of Silverone 2 :i9%. 



JOHN BULL 



Dark bay, 1300 pounds; foaled April 22, 1855 ; bred by Tyler Wilson, 

 Bardstown, Ky. ; got by Ole Bull, son of Pilot : dam Queen, foaled 1848 or 

 '49, bred by Tyler Wilson, got by Pilot ; 2d dam Old Nell, said to have been 

 one of the fastest pacers of her day, and 35 when she died, pedigree unknown. 

 Purchased, fall of 1856, for $250, of Mrs. Tyler Wilson, by Rev. S. F. Johnson 

 and Wm. Campbell, Hopkinsville, Ky., and named John Bull. Then sold to 

 Wm. Kay, a negro, who took him to Keokuk, la., fall of 1857, where he was 

 kept several years, then farmed on shares to different parties several seasons 

 and sold to Michael Seyb, Franklin Center, la. ; to Mr. Refeur ; to W. H. E. 

 Smith, New London, la., 1872, who kept him in New London till 1876, when 

 he took him to California, where he died at Stockton, 1878. Could trot in 

 2 140 or better. A number of his colts won races. 



Sire of dam of Lady Me S., 2 137, winner of 23 races, and 2d dam of Empress 2 129%. 



BROWN DICK (BILLY BASHAW) 



Brown, 16 hands, 1150 pounds; foaled May, 1861 ; bred by J. R. 

 Anderson, 12 miles west of Keokuk, la.; got by John Bull, son of Ole Bull, 

 by Pilot : dam dark brown, almost black, and a fine roadster, bought with her 

 half sister by J. R. Anderson, Merrill, Wis., of Orson Freeman, Vincennes, 

 Ind. Mr. Freeman writes that he sold these mares in the spring of 1860, 

 when four, to J. R. Anderson. They were out of a very active pair of mares 

 of unknown breeding used by him in the vicinity of Keokuk and Vincennes, 

 hauling merchandise. Their sire was a large black horse of good action 

 brought to Vincennes by Thompson Bales and called a Cherokee. They 

 were foaled April, 1856, and Mr. Freeman is positive that their sire was 

 brought to Vincennes, the spring that their dams were served, and died the 



