The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-06

grey horse and a dark bay mare.
Among fathers horses was one which
was a good match for the gray horse.
The man noticed it and told father that
the mare was too fast for the horse,
was worth two of him for speed and
bottom, yet he would trade with father
for this gray horse. After a good deal
of talk, with the aid of Mr.. Brown, the
trade was made, and we drove the
mare in the carriage to Boston, leading
the others. We found her to be a splend-
id roadster and as she was not in good
condition to sell, we took her back to
Durham AT this time she was chafed
and bruised up very badly with heavy
names, yet in sfew months she came
out of it with no traces of it exc pit a
few white spots OH her back and head.
The teamster said she was Narragan-
sett mare. She would weigh thousand
pounds. Father kept her us one OF his
stable horses. She was found to have
great speed as trotter and father was
always Dragging about her. One day
late in the season, Israel Estey of Dover
drove over to Durham with trotter
and bantered father to trot mile heats
on Medbury Plain between Durham
and Dover l had great faith in the
mare and plead with father to accept
his offer and he did, aud fifty dollars
was staked on the race. John Speed
was fathers hostler at the time and he
commenced getting the mare ready for
the race. He had only three weeks to
do it in. AT the time specified, large
collection of people from Dover and
Durham COLLECTED to see the race. DR..
Reuben Steele of Durham was one of
the judges. The Estey horse won the
first heat, the Kelley mare the next
two, distancing the horse the last time
In the spring of 1882 John Bellows
came to Durham with the old Sherman
Morgan and persuaded father to have
the mare stinted to him; he did; ! saw
the horse cover her. | was 81 in 1882
| went to sea again that fall. My rec
objection of the dam of Black Hawk is,
she was very fine pointed dark mare.
When she was excited her nostril was
so large one could put his fist in it,
(SigneuJ JOHN l.. KELLEY"
Mr.. Thompson says "The follow
ing description we have of her from
several that knew her well, including
one of her owners, Wingate Twombly
She was large, rangy mare, little
coarse and scrawny; did not carry
much flesh, might have weighed some
over thousand pounds; was trifle
over - II hands high, head and ears
rather large, neck long and straight
withers low and thin, medium name
and tail, more hair on fetlocks than hei
son; was called black a little ways off
but close to, one could see gray hair'
mixed in with her coat, and close tC
she was called a steel mixed. She haC
a white strip in the face and a little
white on one hind foot. She was smar
to go, but her gait was not smooth
square trot. Some called it Il sort o
"a pace, others that she single-footed
She went with her head low whei
going fast, one person said about {
straight line from her back. She was
called a Narragansett mare. WheI
they traded for her she was called, if
remember right, young, about six years
old; eight when she brought Blacl
Hawk, her first colt"
A Visit to Barnard and Woodstock.
In a recent visit to Woodstock, WI
stopped two nights at the hotel of Mr.
g. +. French of Barnard, house which
we have always been inclined to cal
the best in the State. We met here
number of very intelligent gentlemen
who were conversant with the history O
the Morgan horse of this locality. Mr.
French, the proprietor, now rs year
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