Hall of Fame

 



pocahontas

Year of Birth: 
1847
Immortal: 
Yes
Elected as Immortal: 
1990
Year of Death: 
1873
Gait: 
Pacer
Record: 
p,2:17 1/2
Sire: 
Iron's Cadmus
Dam: 
(Unnamed)
Sire of Dam: 
Probascos Big Shakespeare
Biography: 

As a filly, this chestnut sorrel with four white legs to knees and hocks, a white face and a large white spot on her belly, was described as "growthy, awkward, loose-jointed, low-headed and clumsy." But Pocahontas was also a natural pacer. Foaled in 1847 in Butler County, Ohio, she was sold as a two-year-old for $30. First used as a farm animal, she won her first race at the Queen City Course in Cincinnati, Ohio. After the race she was finally given a name: Pocahontas. On June 21, 1855, over the Union Course, Long Island, New York, she beat Hero in a match race to wagon and reduced the world pacing record to 2:17 1/2. Pocahontas was the grandam of the outstanding trotter Nelson and the world champion pacer Sleepy Tom.

Published in the Harness Racing Museum's 1994 book, The Immortals