The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-05-23

o'"tchh'ib ~ many tHico ONct tnht tlcl
almost believe it themselves, can have
their say, but they will find ii hard TO
account for the fact that his descend
ants have 80 much uniformity of excel
lcnoe, or for a horse of such low and
conglomcrate blood as they Try TO be-
lieve he was, can transmit such charac-
tcristics through so many generations,
as has this head of the family of Morgan
horses. They have already attained
second place in the family of trotters,
and although they may never attain the
first place in that line, they will regain
what misrepresentation and fine, able
writer's like Col. Stowell may have
temporarily deprived them, the first
place in the line ofuseful and profitable
horses.
We will close this paper by giving
two extracts from Wallace's Monthly,
one from a correspondent from the
West, who, in giving the pedigree of a
noted t%rotter, he gives an account of the
sire, Old Comet, and other horses as
follows: "He was foaled a little over
thirty years ago-was a dark brown
bay or brown black horse, not over
10 IA hands high, wonderfully thick
and stout, particularly in the hind
parts" He was brought TO Rockford
from Vermont where he was bred. lie
was always represented here as being
of Vermont Black Hawk and Vermont
Hambletonian blood" He was here
long before this country had anything
like a race track. But we had a horse
show day in Usage, our county seat
each year, and Hathaway's Ethan AL
len, Old Comet, and Grows Bulrusf
| Morgan, used to serve us with exhibi-
tons of speed up and down Main
| Street. Ethan Allen was the most styl.
ish, Cornet the speediest and Bulrush
the strongest. They ocere. al emphot-
icaNy Morgan horses, the first bred
from a son OF Black Hawk, while Com
ct and Bulrush were bred in Vermont.
These horses left the best stock that
this country has erer seen for al pW-
poses"
This is the nearly universal testimony
following the Vermont Morgan STALL
ions everywhere they have been intro
duced.
Mr.. Smith, the owner of Goldmsith
Maid, must have considerable in the
Morgan decent or he would not refuse
S20,0 900 for her colt sired by a son of
Gen. Knox, by North Horse, by Hills
Black, by Sherman Morgan, by Justin
Morgan.
AS Col. Stowell treats Jul readers to
an eulogy of Godfreys Patchen We will
give another opinion upon the same
subject by a writer in the same maya
zine from which are made the other
extract.
So ! would let Patchen rest but his
friends will not. | never said ne did
not get trotters. Some of his offspring
have fast records. l will, however, say
here, more than | ever did, that the
only two / ev,r saw in races Lady
Smell and George H., are not trotters.
know their gait passes for a trot in
the judges stand, but i would rather
have a trotter that does his work
squarely a mile in four minutes, than
one to go q mile q minute a la Lady
Smell. These two horses trot in front
and run behind, as clear a galop as o
thoroughbred race horse. My objec-
ton to Godfrey's Patchen, was the I'M
soundness. Casslus NJ. Clay had IN
guinal rupture, Geo. M. Patchen died
Of inguinal rupture, Godfreys Patchen
died of inguinal rupture. DR.. Penni-
man, of Worcester, performed the post
norton examination on q mare who
lied in foal by Godfreys Patchen, and
in her a male f%oetus, ruptured in
ltero. Dial, son of.Geo. NJ. Palcheu, a
1ery fast horse, had al abnormal devel-
of scrotum, which interfered
with his trotting. His son Topsail, |
hough moi ruptured, has more scrotum
han is convenient for a trotter. That
vas one form of unsoundness Godfrey's !
'atchen inherited and transmitted in
There were others quite as bad, |
or his colts could be gelded. One of
he best informed horsemen in New
lork City, informed mi that the most
-ificult element to contend against by
wners of trotting stations in New
ersey, was the prejudice against the
race, grown from the ringbones
nd spavins scattered through the state
y Godfrey's Patchen, when standing
lere. The same informant told me
was whispered at the Bulls Head
IIopefull's pastims were no cleaner
IAN they should be. repeat this
My for what it was worth. Mr..
airy, of Fitchburg, Mass, bred a
'und clean limbed mare to Godfrey's
twice in succession. She
I'd two spaeined colts. He bred her
old Privateer, and he had what he
as in the habit of getting, a sound
II.
AT the time l first mentioned God-I
ey's Patchen, Mr.. Bonnarr denied
ellesley Boy had ring bones. His
ord is good enough for any one to be-
We. made the statement as 1t came
me by a veterinary surgeon, who
d he saw him at four years old, at
lich time he had them, and was sold
a butcher in birmingham for $50. ] =
II say no more about the horse. / Y
ow he was unsound himself. Ihave :
/ seen all his colts, and must depend
the testimony of others for informal