Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-21
PEDIGREE HUNTING.
RESEARCHES ON OLD PILOT.

lent horse Happy Medium, and also
Woodlands Ethan Allen. We went from
there to the elegant farm of DIR. L. Herr,
who showed us quite number of horses,
among them several of great beauty and
promise. While there, two men drove
into the barn, and sat in their buggy. |
was asking DR.. Herr about Old Pilot,
when one of these strangers said that the
man with him knew more about Old Pr
lot than any other man living. | was in
troduced to him as j. w. Forman of Lit
tie Rock, Bourbon county, Ky, and
found him to appear very intelligent and
accurate of statement. The other was his
son, T. O. Forman of Lexington, Ky.
Mr.. j. w. Forman said:
Old pacing Pilot came to New
Orleans in the fall of 1888 or 1884.
A man by the name of Bean brought
him there with another horse called
Billy. Bean was from Canada, |
think. and brought the horse from
there. He was not Frenchman. He
came there alone brought Pilot to pace
against time; he paced him in breechng
and had pulleys. He brought Pilot and
Billy, and when he first came got up in
the night and took them into tho stable.
Billy was race horse, Il black geldng
Id or 2; reckoned couldn't be beat. for
he brought him here to race with Cow
Driver. who had beaten everything. \
few days after he came, Billy was taken
sick and died Bean acted like a crazy
man: walked about the streets doing
nothing; and Charles Barker, who was in
New Orleans at the time with horses, and
with whom | was, and old man Dubois
bought Pilot of him and kept him there
that winter. Pilot was Il young horse
then. four or five years old, not over six
anyhow. Bean was about thirty or
thirty-tive. 1t was at the old man Nor
tons stables, where he brought the horses
on IA street with French name like
Chomptully, running up and down with
the river. Norton lived on Sycamore
street. At that time drOvers were accus-
toned to take their horses to his stables
and board with him. Bean was fine
looking man, low and heavy set, had dark
hair, and would weigh about l65 to 10
lbs. Dubois brought horses to New Or
leans to sell, as did Barker. Eighteen
thirty-four was the last trip made there
until 1884. | made my first trip in 1929,
and was there in 1880, 81 and -, when
the cholera broke out and rode home.
was there in 1888 and 81. | am pretty
sure ii was in 1884 that Pilot was brought
there. | am satisfied it was after the
cholera. Don't think anybody there had
ever seen Bean there before he came there
that night. Wooley, butcher, had Cow
Driver. kept Pilot myself in New Or
leans one winter after Barker bought
him. Major Lindsay of No. Middetown.
Bourbon county, Kentucky, got Pilot
of Barker after Barker came to
Louisville, and stood him at No. Middle
town one season. think 1896 Jim Rog-
ers of Cane Ridge has the book He is a
brother-in-law to Col. Stoner. Col
Stoner's mother-iu-law who lives at Cane
Ridge, might know more about Pilot.
Pilot was black, no white, about H.
or 3 high, heavy. blocky horse, neck
thick and heavy, heavy name and tail
pretty neat head. lie was a neat horse
anyway, for Canadian.
Old Faro was the first Canadian horse
ever saw. lie came from Montreal
John Bayless brought him to Kentucky
Bill Rogers bought Faro of him. He was
the same kind of a horse as Pilot, only
white.
1t will be remembered that we publish
ed letter some time ago from William
skinner of Shawan, Ky, who at one
time owned Tom Crowder by old Pilot
stating that Pilot was brought from Can
ada by Messrs. Hutchcraft & Lindsay
from Canada about fifty years ago.
After leaving Lexington we stopped a
Shs wan and saw Mr.. skinner; found hin
very pleasant gentleman of about sew
enty, but he said at once that he was mis-
taken about IIutchcraft and Lindsay,
having llOl lIOlll 'dllutld. Una
Pilot came from New Orleans to Bour
hon Co., Ky. Barker brought him from
New Orleans; that Mr.. Forman would
know about it; that Iutchcraft and Lin
say had horse called Cadmus, also ole
Bertrand, about that time; that PHO
could out-trOt any horse he ever saw al
that day; was horse of fine style, very
game.
Mr.. John NJ. Wood of indianapolis alsC
furnished some time ago some informa
ton on Pilot published in The WeSter,
Sportsman, and several letters published
in the REGISTER, in which it was stated
that Pilot was purchased in Canada by
Charles Barker of the firm of Barker q
Heinsohn, with number of mares, anC