34 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
list; of his sons, Bayard has three, Tattler two, Roscoe one, Pilot Temple 
one, Pilot Duroc one. ‘Yet it has been through the female lines that his 
blood has gained its greatest celebrity, one of his mares producing a 2:104% 
trotter and another a 2:103{ performer. Many other daughters of 
Pilot, Jr. have produced wonderfully well, and no mares are more 
eagerly sought than his. The Crowder branch of the Pilot stock is most 
favorably known through Tom Wonder, sire of four 2:30 trotters, and 
there ‘are many other scattering examples of the Pilots. 
The Hiatogas were great speed-producers, both pacers and trotters. 
Scott’s Hiatoga was the sire of six 2:30 pacers and five 2:30 trotters. The 
Cadmus family were descendants of Iron’s Cadmus who was the sire of 
Pocahontas (pacer, 2:17%4 to wagon), and grand sire of Smuggler (27154, 
the fastest trotting record by a stallion). Pocahontas was the dam of Tom 
Rolf, sire of Sleepy Tom (pacer, 2:1214), Gem (pacer, 2.1334), Lady Rolf 
(trotter, 2:221%), Tom Hendricks (trotter, 2:25), and Young Rolf, a new- 
comer, is now also added to his 2:30 list. Tom Rolf was also the sire of 
Pocahontas Boy, sire of Buffalo Girl (pacer, 2:1214), the fast pacer Gurgle, 
and about a half-dozen of 2:30 pacers and trotters. Bonner’s Pocahontas 
(2:263{) was a daughter of Old Pocahontas, and the fast young stallion Rev- 
enue, by Smuggler, is descended through his dam from old Pocahontas. 
The Davy Crocketts have a large showing, though scattering, the 
best results being reached through Legal Tender, sire of Red Cloud (2:18), 
and several other 2:30 pacers and trotters. Then there are the Tom Hals, 
Redbucks, Corbeaus, with many others, and when the fact is appreciated 
that these horses were mostly kept in the back ground, with no opportuni- 
ties and a nominal service fee, not heid for the purpose of breeding trotters, 
and when we further consider their limited produce, we may reasonably sup- 
pose that, with such chances as are now afforded stallions, much greater 
celebrity might have been attained. 
Looking at the unhampered results of the produce of pacing-bred 
mares, we see alegion of trotters that spring from this source which, when 
gathered together, are a convincing proof that the pacers are the Cinder- 
ellas of the trotting world, and their proud sisters, if their breeding were 
studied and the pages of their history were fully open, would after all be 
seen to be of the same plebeian origin. 
Whence came the pacing tendency in the Hambletonians? has been 
asked. Whence, indeed? There are many gaps to fill in the Ham- 
bletonian pedigree. Perhaps it is in these. Look for it in the dam of 
Abdallah, or even in the dam of Hambletonian himself. You do not know 
that it is in them, nor do you know that it is not there, though you do know 
that, if they have it, they must have received it from some source. 
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