The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

work, which will he published IN book
form. we want pedigree, description and
history of every mertorious stallion de-
seconded in direct male line from Justin Nor
gan that has ever been used for stock ptIr-
poses. Blanks for this information will be
furnished free on application. Questions of
public interest concerning Morgan horses
will be answered in this department. All
communications in this department may he
addressed to w. IL. Bliss, Rochester, Vt.
Star of the West, 2:2G 1-2.
Black horse with star; height; - IA
hands; weight 1850 lbs; foaled 1859;
bred by David Graves of Sherman,
Conn. Sired by .Jackson's Flying Cloud,
son of Vermont Black Hawk. Dam,
Grey Fanny (bred by said Graves) by
Eureka, son of Long Island Black
Hawk. Passed through the hands of
q. f. Kicker, Norman Fuller, a. W.
tawcett, n. f. Russell and others, to
Hon. Walter |. Hayes of Clinton, Iowa,
who purchased him in 1888, and still
owns him.
Flying Cloud, sire sof Star of the
West, was one of the earliest and
among the best sons of Black Hawk
lie was a black horse, foaled in 1915,
bred by Andrew Robson of Fall River,
Mass. Ills dam was by Andrew Jack
son, son of Young Bashaw. Flying
Cloud was also sire of Leviathan, wa
gon record, 2:3l. His blood is also
found in Jack Hart (pacer), 2:23 Ia {,
William G.. 30 LII Ripton, 2:29 Ii:
Gomez, ,: 10 Ii: Ella Wright, , "a 81 :;
I y Io,. y
ii; Kitty Bates. , 10; Billy Lambert
son, :2S ii: Alfred, 2;2G; Charley f.
(pacer), Dps; Dinah, $50; Fashion,
2:23 II; Geo. ID. sherman, 2:29 ii !;
Rutledse. $50; Forrest Patchen, , 20.
Ii and Small Hopes, 2:2G -. Flying
Cloud was bought when a colt by the
late Timothy II. Jackson of Flushing,
l.. l., who owned him for twenty years.
lie was horse of considerable speed
and great style and beauty.
Star of the West is sire of five trotters
in the , 80 list,viz. Lady Groesbeck,
2:2j -; Joe Young, 2:25 III; John j.
Cook, 2:29 -; Jim Raven, 2:30 and
Maggie Kcvan, 80 Ills own record
of 2:2G - was made at ST. Paul in
September, 1872, when he was in his
fourteenth year and is the fastest record
ever made by any stallion of that age.
When twenty-five years old he won
the stallion races both at Rochester and
Red Wing, Mimi, trOtting a fifth heat
ut Rochester in . :3i 3.4 and fifth heat
at Red Wing III 2:31 -, which is fast
or than any heat was ever trotted by
any other stallion of that age, and fur
nishes the strongest evidence of the
vigor of his constitution and mainten-
ance Of his powers.
His owner, Judge Hayes, proprietor
of RingwOod Park, Clinton, Iowa, a
gentlemen eminent as a iurist and con-
spicuOus as ono of the most intelligent
breeders of trotters and road horses in
the West, says: Star of the West is
twcntY-siX years Old, but is well pre-
served, iull of life, vigorous, and APP
parcntly good for years OF service. lie
is horse OF great style and substance,
and Notwithstanding he was trOttcd all
over the United States, in season and
out OF season, for some seventeen
years, he is without blemish or I'M
soundness. In his campaigns, extend.
ing from the Atlantic TO the Pacific, he
Justly acquired reputation for speed,
endurance and indomitable game sec
ond to no trotting stallion OF his day.
lie is sire OF more fast trOttcrs than any
other stallion IN Iowa. During the two
seasons that he has been at Ringwood
Park he has proved himself to be re.
markable sire and his colts seem to be
all that could be desired. lie served
seventy mares in 1884. | am getting
splendid lot of tilies from him. | re-
serve all my tillies from good mares,
and shall GnOn have a frran1 pOlla,Iia,,
Speaking of the age of Star of the
West, Judge Hayes says 1t is well
settled fact in breeding, that can be
fully demonstrated, that age, at least so
long as a stallion maintains his vigor.
makes no difference with the speed or
other capacity of his get Rysdyk's
Hambletonian was sired when Abdal-
Iah was twenty-five years old. Artil-
Iery, that obtained a record of 2:2l IL
IN 1881 probably the best trotting stall
hon son of Hamhletonian except Geo.
Wilkes, was got when his sire was
twenty-three years old, and his dam
was sixteen. lroquois, the only Ameri-
can horse that ever won the English
Derby, was got by stallion twenty
four years old. Geo. Wilkes, with
thirty-four trotters to his credit in the
2:3O class and seven in ? go or better,
made practically his whole great record
through colts sired while he was in
kentucky, which was from the
time he was eighteen to twenty-six
years of age. Blue Bull was i'm the
stud till twenty-seven years old, and
the colts got i'll his last years are PROV
ing his best. The dam of his fastest
trotter, Will Cody, 2;19 - was over
twenty when he was foaled. Poca-
hontas, the greatest of English brood
mares, whose direct descendants won
the four classic races no less than forty
five times, produced at twenty-six
daughter that i'll turn produced a win
ner of the Oaks, winner of the Two
Thousand Guineas, and a winner of the
st. Leger. The dams of both Maud s.
and Jay~Eye-See, the worlds greatest
trotters, were sired when Pilot ir. was
twenty years old. The renowned Sir
Archy, best son of imported Diomed,
Was cipa1 vrbon thot ,,,an.