162 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE, 
settled in 1775, and so early as the year 1802 a 
Frenchman named Michaux, travelling in this coun- 
try on a behest from his government, reported of 
Kentucky that “almost all the inhabitants employ 
themselves in training and meliorating the breed of 
horses.” And he describes these horses as being 
“elegantly formed, having slim legs and well-propor- 
tioned heads.” 
Another old traveller, writing in the year 1818, 
declares: “The horse, ‘noble and generous,’ is the 
favorite animal of the Kentuckian, by whom he is 
pampered with unceasing attention. Every person 
of wealth has from ten to thirty of good size and 
condition, upon which he lavishes his corn with a 
wasteful profusion.” 
Within the past few months a society has been 
organized and a stud-book established in the interest 
of the Kentucky saddle horse, a dozen stallions being 
named as foundation horses.1 About half of these 
stallions were thoroughbred, the other half being pa- 
cers of mixed breeding; and this fact indicates the 
origin of the Kentucky saddler, namely, that he isa 
cross between the pacer and the thoroughbred. Most 
of these Kentucky pacers were of Canadian stock, 
and they are described as “a hardy, substantial race.” 
It was from this same stock that old pacing Pilot, 
whose son Pilot Jr. has attained reputation as a pro- 
genitor of trotters, was descended. There is a close 
1 Their names are here put down: — Denmark, by imported 
Hedgeford; Brinker’s Drennan, by Davy Crockett; Sam Booker, 
by Boyd McNary; John Dillard, by Indian Chief; Tom Hal; 
Coleman’s Eureka; John Waxey, by Vanmeter’s Waxey, Cabell’s 
Lexington, by Blood’s Black Hawk; Copperbottom; Stump the 
Dealer; Texas, by Comanche; and Prince Albert, by Frank 
Wolford 
