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arc generally good, but somewhat inclined to spring in the knees ; 

 feet often narrow and mulish, but very durable. In trotting they 

 are usually short, quick steppers, with very high knee action, and 

 are spirited, trappy harness horses, and long-lived. These horses 

 are often said to be degenerated from their Norman ancestry by 

 reason of the coldness of the climate, the long winters and scanty 

 fare. There have been numerous importations from France to 

 this country of the choicest specimens of Norman horses, and an 

 impartial comparison shows that the Canadian has gained in spirit 

 and speed more than enough to compensate for all he has lost in 

 size. 



The best of the Canadians that ever came to the States was, 

 probably, Pilot, a black pacing and trotting horse whose descend- 

 ants inherited trotting speed. He was often distinguished as Old 

 Pacer Pilot. Wallace's American Stud Book says of him : " Foaled 

 about 1826. Nothing is known of his pedigree. He was called 

 a Canadian horse, and both trotted and paced ; at the latter gait, 

 it is said, he went in 2 in. 26 s. with 165 lbs. on his back. He 

 was bought about 1832 by Major 0. Dubois, from a Yankee peddler 

 in New Orleans, for $1000. He was afterwards sold to D. Hein- 

 sohn, of Louisville, Ky., and was kept in that viciuity until he 

 died, about 1855. His stock was very stout and fast." As noth- 

 ing is known of his pedigree, and as he was in all t^nearance a 

 genuine Cannuck, it is likely that he did not owe i» i thing to 

 Messenger. One of his get, Alexander's Pilot, Jr., out of Nancy 

 Pope by Havoc, was the sire of many fast trotters, the fastest of 

 which was John Morgan, out of a mare by Medoc, and he by 

 American Eclipse. The dam of Mambrino Pilot was also by Pilot, 

 Jr., and, like John Morgan, was of Messenger descent on the dam's 

 side. Though the best of the descendants of Old Pilot are part 

 Messenger, there is none of that blood in Pilot, Jr., and it must be 

 confessed that Old Pilot sired some very good horses that took the 

 trotting all from himself. 



Another horse of Canadian origin, though not a Cannuck, 

 deserves notice in this connection. Royal George, called Warrior 

 before he came to the States, the sire of the fast stallion Toronto 

 Chief, and several other good trotters, was a native of Canada, and 

 probably out of a Cannuck mare, but his sire was Black Warrior, 

 and he by Tippoo, a grandson of Messenger. 



Some very good colts have been bred out of Cannucks by good 

 trotting stallions. Thus the celebrated sons of Rysdyk's Hamble- 

 tonian, Bruno and the Brother of Bruno, and their full sister, 

 Brunette, are out of a Canadian mare. 



The bay stallion St. Lawrence, the sire of several fast trotters, 

 Was a Canadian, and one of the best of his breed. He died at 



