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

err il as the same source from which was
drawn the trotting elements of the Ca
nadians, the Columbuses and the Pilots.
Mr.. Chapman quotes from an articl-
on Godfrey's Patchen. the sire of Hope
full, Henry Genet, Wellesley Boy, Lady
Smell and others, by that "fgmcnt of
the imagination" rs he calls himself,
"Yah Amerikanski" in his farewell adj
dress, where he says, al should never
have written again, but that l had writ
ten something's regretted. do
not refer TO my structures on Godfrey's
Patchen nor on Fearnaught. They were
entirely justifiabe, for wrote from the
point of view "of the public who pat
ronize public stations" lndeedl pub
| lie opinion! the cry of an excited pop
ulace! The idea that what everybody
says must be true is fine authority for
| the individual opinions of a man, es-
pecially a man who writes for the news
papers such bosh as the following,
"One of the best informed horsemen In
New York city informed me that the
most difficult element to contend
against by owners of trotting stations
in New Jersey was the prejudice
against the entire race, grown from the
ring bones and spavins scattered
through the state by Godfrey's Patchcn
when standing there" Now the fact
is, Godfrey's Patchen never stood In
New Jersey a season in his life.
His charge against Wellesley Boy OF
| ringbones is equally unfounded, and lie
admits it. Hopeful has as smooth pas
terms as any horse in the world. |
know from personal examination. And
so with the rest of his bombastic hifa-
lutin words about Godfrey's Patchen or
Fearnaught or Lambert or Smuggler,
for each have had their turn of shear
say" abuse from him. l trust Mr.. G..
will hereafter, rather than quoting, try
and avoid the errors that "swamped'
him and caused him to eat more
"humble pie" than ever knew a wri-
ter to open his mouth for before, and
eschew the doctrine that what every
body says must be true, and know for
write only that which he does know.
OF the six colts have owned or bred
that have trotted in 2:30, ones breed
ing is unknown to me, but suppose l
can find out if necessary. Another was
sired by Mambrino Patchen from Sister
Sue by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, four
| WcIC lIOHl DOSiOH Nyuccn, Cldluleu W
have been by Black Hawk, but after
wards shown to have been been
brought from Maine, and was probably
a Maine Messenger like the grey mare
| brought from Boston with her. Tie
first of her colts Boston Queen) was by
Hiram Drew of Maine, claimed Mes.
senger, the second by old Columbus
the third bv young Columbus, and the
fourth by Belongs Ethan. bred three
Ethan Allen colts from Boston Queen
two of them were not over ii hands
high, and could never trot much better
than mile in three minutes.
One thing farther and l am done
Mr.. c. says am not justified in say
ing that he is Impressed that speed is
confined manly to small horses, and
especially to those in all unbroken line
of Morgan ancestry" Well, thought
| was, for l took the whole sentence
cer6dtim Ell iterdtim from one of his
own articles. subjoin the tables in
question. EDWIN S. STOwELL.
| TAALE No. J.
2 80. horses of 1878, classified by families. DC
pendants in the male lines