The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-23
Blue Bulls Success.
From Dunton's Spirit of the Tur


Editor Dunton'S Spirit Of the Tplf:
All the horsemen now admit Blue
Bulls superiority as a trotting sire.
Solely on his own merits he has forced
himself to the top. He had not the
best bred mares in the country, neither
did any one advertise him as the com
ing horse till all the world should DE
striving to send mares to his harem. But
he is now the recognized King of trot-
ting sires. Nearly 60 pacing and trot-
ting performers are the immediate pro-
duction of this great horse, with still
more to come. The question now is,
whether or not Blue Bull will be able,
through his sons and daughters, to es-
tablish family. We say certainly he
will, Popular opinion, until quite re-
Gently, has been so prejudiced against
the family, that very few breeders have
had the courage to give the produce of
Blue Bull a trial in the stud AS a
consequence, there are very few second
Blue Bulls; and of these few, fewer
still have been handled. We wish to
show that this feeling against Blue Bull
is nothing but blind prejudice, by
which breeders are cutting their own
heads of. There seems to be an idea
that, unless an animal traces to Messen-
ger, Diomed, Duroc, IIambletonian
Mambrino Chief, Henry Clay, or some
of the Morgaus, he is not worth even a
passing notice. If it could be proven
that Blue Bull had descended from any
one of these families, even though his
| success as sire were only half what it
| thnpn no N la
demand for his produce. 1t breeders
would only stop to investisa ate they
would find that three.fourths yes,
seven-eights of our trotters are of pac-
ing origin. Keeping this fact in view,
is it any wonder that Blue Bull was "A
successful sire? OF pacing descent, a
very fast PAGER himself (haying record
of 2 20 and being able TO show two
minute gait), Blue Bull, when bred to
pacing mares, or mares of pacing uri-
gin, was sure to throw a trotter or fast
PAGER. Why? Because the pacing hab-
ii is OF very ancient origin, has become
fixed in the breed, and is more -ure OF
reproducing Itself. Long before trut-
tiers were thought of PAGERS were n"to-
riOus tor their flretuess of foot. Yes,
long before Messenger was imported
the descendants of Ntrraganselr ptcers
were scattered all through the Eastern
States. There is not doubt in my
mind but that from these PAGERS comes
all of Messengers glory as a progenilOr,
While have nothing to say about the
Mambrno Chief, lllmbletonian or any
other family of trotters, must say
that Blue Bull has demonstrated that
none of these crosses are absolutely
necessary to produce trotters. Notice
Zoe b 2:l7 IA; Bessie, 2:l9; Lena
Swallow, 2:l9; VIII Cody, 2:19 II,
Silverton, 2:20 IA; Chance, 2;20 -
Richard, 2:2l; Mamie, 2:2l Ia
None of these have single
known line to any other than
the pacing family, except Bessie, whose
dam was of Morgan origin, and there
is no doubt at all but that the Morgans
were full of pacing blood. Now then
if Blue Bull, a PAGER, can, out of moth
ing better than pacing mares, produce
more fast trotters that any other sire
why cannot son of Blue Bull, out OF
a fast pacing dam do the same thing
if given the chance2 VIII some stu
dent of the trotting problem please an
swer? Prompter 2:3l, son of Blue
Bull out of mare by Flaxtail, (who il
of the same family as Blue Bull anG
can pace as FAST is bred after this plar
and is the sire of Apex, Pap at two