The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-27

was volunteer, by HambletOnian.
Again he quotes fronrJ. ii. Phillips, in
tho same isslic, whose burden of song is
the excellence of the cross Of Morgans
with thoroughbreds and gives Mr.. Dor
sey's success as example. | called at
tention to Mr.. Dorsey's success in cross
brecding with Morgans years ago and
the succcss of other men also. l quote
again from my address of 1870. was
taught in my early days that the true
theory of breeding is TO cross large,
rooipy, strong boned, coarse mare with
a smooth, stylish, trappy little horse.
Mr.. Donner's mare Peerless, by Amcri-
can Star from a Messenger mare,
Noncsuch by Lambert from Black
Hawk and Henry mare, are examples :
and in the days of Black Hawk that
system gave very satisfactory re-
suits ++lf breeders should provide
themselves with such mares. as were in
the days Of Black Hawk, small, fast
stations, would produce equally good
and even better stock than was pro-
duced then" Is there anything heret-
ical to Morgans in that? And yet Mr..
Chapman places himself antagonistical-
ly to me. For what reason It Does he
honestly desire to show to the farmers
what course it is their best interest to
pursue in breeding horses, or is he an
advocate in the interest of certain Lam
bert and Ethan Allen stallions2
Does he advocate breeding small
mares to. small stations now? Know
he did ten years ago, and when he had
his own horse breeding experience; but
does he now come before the public as
Stunning the role of teacher and advise
them to breed their small Lambert,
Ethan Allen and Morgan mares in and
in to the same families of small horsesY
If so, then indeed there is contention
between us, and shall advise him in
his quotations and references to leave
out such horses as Rarus, Hopeful,
Gloster on the one hand, and Aristos,
Ben Franklin, Gomez, Nonsuch, Col.
Moulton and others, and stick 10 the
Ella Doc class, that are nothing without
speed, and no great shakes with it for
lack of size. For myself l hold to the
same ground took ten years ago, but
with far greater tenacity, for now i
know by experience what l then be-
lieved from partial experience of others.
l have in all my published and spoken
articles on this subject, stood upon the
same ground, and all l have ever said
against Morgans related to the PERM
cious effects of their in and in breeding.
1t was for such products that / strung
up as suckers for which Mr.. Chapman
took me to task. / never called such
horses as Aristos, Ben Franklin, Addi-
son, Lambert or any other bred in a
proper manner, bred to size, any names
or spoke of them any way disparaging-
ly. l felt from the personal attacks |
had received, and the claims made for
horses that had had the entire control OF
Addison county, partial control of
Chittenden and Rutland counties, and
almost entire control of a large slice of
the State of New York, very generous
patronage of the best trotting mares of
many of the principal cities of New
England and New York for nearly
thirty years, that the record of 1878
was especially bad, and that the breed
ing public, who were breeding for
speed alone, were not getting exactly
what they bargained for, and ought to
be enlightened, and it was my duty to
do it. 1t is not enough for a trotting
horse to be a trotter for one season on
ly, and there was not a son or daughter
of Lambert last year with 2:30 record
in ~ that could repeat it except Wild
Lily and Lady Foxie, and the extent of
their ability or performance, which
terms are synonymous for horses own
ed by sporting men, was one heat for
Wild Lily and two for Lady Foxic.
Mr.. Chapman says that "resort to
the usual practice of those who wish to
disparage Morgans, of chasing Claws
and Hanblctonians together, and then
talking of Morgans, Black Hawks,
Morrills, Golddusts, Ethan Aliens and
Lambcrts as if they were not all Nor
gans, and belonged to the same family"
l have no objection to CHASING all these
several branches under the general head
Of Morgans, but claim the same right to
class Patchens, Clays, Long Island
Black Hawks, Bashaws, Abdallahs, V OIL
unteers, Uamblctonians, Mambrinos
and Champions, under the general head
of Messengers, us lineal descendants in
the male line from old imported Mes
senger, and do not consider that Mr..
IC. was fair or even clear headed,
when he gave the percentage of Clay
trotters in the 2:30 class separate, and
| Vermont Black Hawks and Ethan Al
iCho tOs3CtllCls [AS lC HIS
certain tables I'm Wallace's Monthly in
an unfair way, ] will subjoin the tables
in question in full, for the information
and guidance of the general public,
| without comment, farther than to say
that the Messenger family, as family,
in nearly or quite all its various
branches, are large, rangy, bony, styl-
ish horses with long, low, sweeping
stride. The Morgans vary much ac-
cording to the crosses, which with them
have been taken.
| Mr.. Chapman gives a selling list OF
horses, stretching from Canada line to
Boston, from these horses from which
every one has colts, and is therefore
personally interested in their reputation
and advancement, and the crushing out
OF all interlopers with their foreign
crosses, against my little personal list
of q or % horses in less than two years
sold for nearly $4,000; and after doing
all in his power, aided by the united eli.
forts of all the above interested parties
to prevent the public from using Clay
or Hambletonian stations, and espec.
tally mine, twits me of going out of nv
course to buy what he calls the best pair
| ". 'AAN "'"S 7SiNj q loii VI pidCh lluW
Morgans. | confess bought a pair Of
horses, one of which was sired by
Spaulding's old Black Lion horse, and
the other by Belongs Ethan Allen
from a mare by old Black Lion himself
that they were l6 l-2 hands high, and
the lightest one weighed at the time
bought them, 1920 lbs. | bought then
because l had nothing of my OWL
breeding then or could find nothing
that would match, sired by my horse
that stood over l6 hands high OF
weighed over LOO lbs, and my Gus
toner wanted them larger. hope die
nothinglwrong in buying, as 1t were, GU
of my own family. If so, have gont
and done it again for the reason that
have bought and sold nearly ever,
gelding colt and some mares over five
years old, bred from my stations
Mambrino Patchcn and Landlord il
this region, the oldest of which, bred
in Vermont, being eight years old THU