CANADIANS, TOM HALS AND PILOTS

(1840) also known as January’s or Perkins’ St. Lawrence, or as the Simmard horse. A handsome seal brown, he did not actually have a blue eye (a convention of 19th-century racing art was to give the horse a “wild looking” eye). Apart from the eye, tiny ears, and a head shorter and smaller through the muzzle than it actually was, this engraving shows the horse’s conformation realistically, conveying especially that he had a relatively short neck carried high (similar to the Blue Bulls), powerful hindquarters, and clean but very substantial limbs. Standing about 14:2 hands and weighing 950 pounds, he competed from 1848 to 1856, winning 14 races. He is by the Québec stallion Francis Lareau, tracing in sireline to Justin Morgan