The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-11


grounds for the prejudice they had and
have. still AGAINST .Patcbens,. whether
Godfrey's Patchen ever stood in New
Jersey OH not. I'VE lived a couple OF
ydafs plef Troy, and during that time.
W observation, think we acquired some
knowledge in horse breeding; this
brings us to our experience in breeding
the Lamberts that Col. Stowcll alludes
to so sneeringly. We think a man
that boasts so loudly of his " experience,
knowledge &C., of horses, should
knowia mare from b horse. The facts
in the case are these: The dam of the
mare we now drive was owned by a
farmer in Salisbury; we procured the
Use from her of her oN Ter to raise the
colt rom Lambert on shares; at wean-
ing time Mr.. Harris bought out the
share Of the owner of the dam, paying
in cash $50, and he still owns that STARE.
The services of Lambert I'd sire the
other colt was paid for at the
regular price of $50 in trees and the
keeping ofthe one left. The last was a
horse colt (not mare as Col. Stowell
says) and was sold more thnn year
ago for $3.50, and gave excellent salts
faction to his purchaser, who used him
in his livery. Neither of my sons nor
myself ever thought him a trotter or
ever spent any time trying to make him
one. The dam of this colt was by a
Hambletonian horse, and according to
the theory of Col. Stowell, Wallace and
others, should have had more speed
than the mare we have, as her dam was
an inbred Morgan, but he cannot now,
and never could, trot nearly as fast as
the mare. When this mare was being
broken she was hitched perhaps three
times to q trotting wagon, and perhaps
three times to a trotting sulky. This
was to break.her, not to make trotter
of her; we think size has never been
hitched to trotting sleigh. Ny sons
have driven her on the ice to side
draft sleigh few times, but systemat-
ic training she has never had. My sons
have all been too closely confined and
employed with other duties the past
year TO make trotters of any horse,
though one has exercised the mare some
to road wagon and under the saddle,
mainly the latter, teaching her to canter
or amble. Such as she is, she is just
what we bred for, small, fleet, en-
during roadster. We are willing to
acknowledge she is insignificant, espcc-
tally for Lambert, yet we have driven
her 40 miles in seven hours without
stopping, and during the journey eros
sed the Green Mountains; fully ten
miles of the forty-nine was through
deep untrodden snow, though it was
barely broken out most of the way.
We have driven her to n road Wagon
with two and baggage, forty miles in a
half day, and the next morning twenty
five miles in three hours and five min
utes with the same load. We have
never tried to make trotter of her as
Col. Stowcll asserts the sons have, but
we believe she has speed enough nat
urallv, with months training, to beat
any Patchen the Col. owns, one mile,
five or ten as he may choose, and we do
not except that one by Mambrino
Patchen, out of Sister Sue, and which
he claims has beaten 2:30, and which
he has spent so much time, and ex-
pended so much to pay professional
drivers to train, certainly months where
hours have been spent to make our in
significant Lambert mare a trotter. OF
his six horses that have beaten $3.50 the
only one thai. we know has proved her
ability to trot in 2:30 in public, is The
one sired by Belongs Ethan. Inasmuch
as the Col. thinks that everyone must
be Influenced by his interest in his state
ments, we ask him to furnish some
other proof than his own private time
that the other five have ever beaten
2:30. The words used by Col. Stowell
in Wallace's Monthly of January, in
speaking of little trotting horses, were
these: "I loye them as well as any
man, and bred as many as most men of
my age-six that have beaten 2.3O.r
Now when we call for the pedigree of
these little trotters, the Col, with all
his wonderful knowledge of breeding,
says Of one: Cones breeding is I'M
known to me-" That breeder who
affirms his knowledge SO surely and
loudly, should breed 9 80 horse and
not know how it was bred is something
remarkable, and something that we
cannot account for, though that, with
some other statements of the Col, gives
us reason to-fear his boosted wisdom is
somewhat mixed, perhaps not as relia-
bic as he would have us believe; it
certainly looks in this case, at least,
That he did not know what he was about
when he bred that 2:30 horse. He also
says Of another of these Httie trotters
that have heated $50: Another also |
by Mambrino Patchen from Sister Sue,
by Rysdyks' Hambletonian." This is |
The pedigree given by Col. Stowell of
Landlord. Now did Col. Stowell breed |
Landlord? is Landlord Title trotter?
Dr. has Col. Stowell bred Mfle trotter
by Mambrino Patchen ont of Sister Sue?
The latter must be the case to make the
and statements true. This
$ another evidence that the boosted ex-
3erience that he came so near calling
Inowledge at Crown Point, is some
what mixed. Bnt to return 10 the
matter of experience in breeding; If
my one was to confine himself strictly
% his own experience. even fhonoh n