Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-02
latter by Morgan sire with his record Of 2:2S
and heats, the roll Of honor would be length

ne uam OF Won ArnlE was gran0uauSu-
ter Of Vermont Black Hawk, q grandson OF
stallion, Ethan Allen. A careful compiler OF
the relative merits Of the winning families, as
shown by the tart contests in 1880, says: "The
Vermont Black Hawk family ranks second
(thc HambletoniaH being first,) as producer
Of $50 horses, leading the Mambrino Chief
family more than the latter leads the Clays."
In comparing Black Hawk with Henry Clay,
he says: "Clay and Black Hawks stud SER
vices were about coeval, but Black; Hawk
sired three 2:S0 horses to .Clay's one, and
every one of the three was better horse, by
the record, than that one Clay. He sired
four dams of $50 trotters to Clay's two.
Henry Clay begot two sires OF
$50 trotters, and these two sired one whole
2:3O performer apiece. To Offset this achieve
ment, Vermont Black Hawk begot sixteen
sires of 2:30 horses"
Following up the performances in 1880, we
find that forty-six borses won ten or more
heats each. Of these sixteen were Handle
tonians, seven Vermont Black Hawks, four
Mambrino Chiefs, and two Clay's. During
| the year twenty three horses made records
below 2:20. Of these the Hambletonian male
line produced eleven, the Mambrino Chiefs
four, Vermont Black Hawk three, and the
Clay one. Seventy-fve horses made records
| from 220 to 2:25, of which the HambletOnian
| line furnished twenty-eight, Vermont Black
Hawk seven, Clay five, and Mambrino Chief
three. Of all the $50 performers in 1880
| Rysdyk's Hambletonian family produced
eighty-seven, Vermont Black Hawk twenty
nine, Mambrino Chief line seventeen, and
| Henry Clay sixteen, these four having the
| highest number in the list.
| So much for 1880. WaIlac9s Monthly pub
| fishes table showing the relative merit OF the
different trotting families as shown by the
number of heats in $50 or less in 1879, the four
highest being as follows. Rysdyk's Handle
tonian 467, Vermont Black Hawk 222, Nam
brine Chief Sc, and Henry Clay IS. The num-
Der of performers contributed by each was,
Hambletonian 76, Black Hank 10, Mambrino
Chief Is, and Henry Clay IA. The records
therefore show that the Vermont Black Hawk
| fumily led the Mambrino Chiefs and the. Clays
| in the number of performers and relative
number of heats, both in 1879 and 1880.
| Thus it is demonstrated by the records that
the breeding of Won Arnim on the side of his
| dam, as well as on that of his SIRE is of thu
very best; and the horse by his performances
on the turf in his flve-year-old form, pittet
against the veterans of the 2:19 class, ha!
shown that he Is in speed, game and bottom
Many horses of different breed
ing have shown a want Of courage
and bottom, when pressed in broken and hotl.
contested heats, but have yet to hear of
Morgan flinching when under fire. The 2:3|
list contains about 260 Morgan bred horses
and not a gutter or lunkhead among tn
number. Lady Maud, one of the gamiest o
the game ones, although with limited tur
career, owing to an injury, else she woul'
ror to all cutters and phoo-phoo
ers of Morgan blood in the trotter) with he
thirty-three heats under $50, and record o
l2:1S, is an inbred Morgan. The pedigree O
both her sire and dam runs in direct lines t.
) Justin Morgan; an animal whom all of hi
biographers agree contained under his hide a
much horse to the square inch as any tina
ever lived.
l wish to say in this connection that / d.
, not share in what appears to be the pop
!, ular belief, that Mr.. Kittson is novice il
matters pertaining to the great enterprise tina
he has inaugurated. He is a man of ripe ex
perience and great sagacity in business affairs
, and in making his purchases, has undoubted
ly counseled freely with the gentlemen that h
has employed to aid him, yet the probabilitie
are, that not an animal has been, or will b
selected, without passing under his strictes
, scrutiny, as we'll as meeting his own ideas O
perfection. have been informed by persol
; that has long been familiar with Mr.. Kittson
that he has passionate love for fin
} horses, and has often in tn
past expressed a desire Il
} retire from active business, that he might en-
gage in the breeding and development of tina
animal in its highest form and capabilities.
Allow me, in conclusion, to convey to tn
GLOBE the thanks of the breeders and admirer
of the horse in Minnesota, for assigning Il
their interest so liberal portion of its valua
BILE space. We all like to talk horse, and an op
portunity is thus offered to crafty such pro
: pensity, as well as a chance to jaw bacl
whenever our individual opinions are ques
of the animal but have conflicting theories al
to the cause and effect, when the development
and breeding problem is considered
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