The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-04

once and got two colts from her pos
sibly three. Informant does not re-
member what horse they bred her to-.
One was sorrel horse colt sold to
Hubbard Thomas and Daniel Shays of
Salisbury. The last foal she brought
was gray filly, which Mr.. VIM.
Wainwright kept for his own use as
long as she lived. The gray mare,
foaled by the Dart mare, was the only
horse they kept. They used oxen.
They we're breeding no other mare
when they bred colts from her. They
! bred at least three colts from this
younger gray mare perhaps more.
Informant remembers three. The first
was black horse (gelded). Inform
ants father gave it TO him. 1t was a
great goer, thick-set, short-legged,
more like the grand-dam. They kept
the black colt till five or six years old
when informant let his brother have
him aud he sold him to II. G.. Sessions
of East Middlebury, who afterwards
let his father take the horse to market !;
an excellent horse, very stout to draw,
and speed as good as his strength; a
great roadster. Another foal of the
Younger gray mare was bay mare
which Mr.. VIM. Wainwright kept and
thought great deal of. She wonld
weigh about 900 lbs. was short-gaited,
got in nobody's way on the road, but
was not trotter. The last foal the
younger gray mare brought was black
in the fall of 1887, when she was three
years old, when he bought his present
farm of Gideon M. Jennings, and turn
ed her in to Jennings at sixty-five dol
lars toward pay for the farm at the
time of purchase, Sept. IS, 1887, as
above stated. This mare was after
wards known as Black Maria, became
famous as trotter, was once sold for
5000, and, after passing through sew
eral hands, went into the hands of
Smith brothers, who raised from her
Young Columbus. The dam of Black
Maria was an iron-gray mare, pretty
tall, long-legged, would weigh about
nine hundred, and Black Maria was
built very much like her, and at three
years old would weigh about eight
hundred pounds. She was homely
mare, with a long neck and was very
long gated; she had pretty heavy
name and tail =; if she had any white, it
was a star; not certain she had that.
She was unbroken when informant
sold her. Jennings undertook to break
her and had to give it up, and he sold
her, as informant understood, for about
thirty-five dollars. She took after her
dam in shape and gait her dam had
the largest hip of any horse he Gnform-
anti ever saw. She was sired by a
horse that Harvey Yale had; very
sure his horse sired her; it was a
| poy hOioC, NOiS piOuipb, hiOO othail
horse, about 900 lbs, all fire. think
it was Morgan horse" To further
inquiries Mr.. Wainwright said Mr.
Yale used to come to their place with
this horse, and they bred to him sew
eral times; he remembers on one
occasion that the horse stepped on
Yale's foot and hurt him considerably
He thinks this was the time when
Black Maria was got; says he can re-
member within ten feet of where she
was foaled. Mr.. Wainwright said they
never took the mare that brought
Black Maria away to horse; always bred
her to some stallion that came to the
farm. He does not remember any
gray stallion coming there. Mr.
Wainwright also said that he gave thi:
same information many years ago tC
Mr. Orson Smith who came to him tC
learn what horse sired Black Maria.
In regard to Black Maria we also
T talked with Mr.. j. Kelsey, who has al
ways lived close by the William Vain,
f wright place, and who is now over sew
enty.tve years old, who says that VIM
Wainwright had an old mare of gray
ish color, but over 10 hands and would
weigh 1000 lbs. in good flesh, known
as the Dart mare. From her he RAISED
roam mare little taller than the ole
mare; and this roam mare had ba,
mare colt, he thinks, from horse from
Chittenden way, said to be Morgan
horse. This filly was called Dolly anC
Mr.. Wainwright kept her till she wa
worn out. He remembers the birth O
the roam mare, but could not tell tn,
year. Remembers Mr.. Dart; he cam,
f from the east side of the mountain
g does not know the town, Remember
when he came on to the plains; h
g lived right across from where Ed. LIE