The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-27

terson, n. II. He was black horse, Q
which stood, when matured, flltceh
hands high, alsl weighed 100 pounds. |
He showed great action, and was l
horse of high carriage and light move |
ment. He could trot mile III three |
minutes, and got fine class OF colts, |
many of which were fast for their day !
aud sold for high prices. During his
life he stood NJ iisrdwick, VT, Ian I
n. y, and Danville, W,
diving at the latter place IN lS46. Ills
son, Vermont Champion, toalet June
2G 1874, was also black and quite fast.
As Vermont Morgan Champion was
toaled several years before MIR. Bel
lows bought Sherman Morgan, 1t can
not he claimed he was a son OF Paddy.
His general characteristics were very
similar to those of Vermont Black
Hawk. Both had some speed, and
were horses of high carriage as well as
light, elastic action.
The dam of Young America, son OF
Farmers Beauty, was black mare got
by Sherman Morgan. This shows that
he got at least two others, and proba-
blv several more, besides Vermont
Black Hawk, that were black. That
the yet of Sherman Morgan, ana their
descendants, varied in color, as DO
those of all horses, is evident from the
fact that the Batchelder horse by hlm
was light gray, and another OF MS
sons, called Carpenters Gray, was also
of the same color. This was true OF
Newell's Gray, while the Esty horse
get was black roam, and both were by
Sherman Morgan. The Niles horse. by
ROYAL Morgan, son of sherman Nor
gan, was black; and Morgan Figure,
by ROYAL Morgan, another son OF oner-
man Morgan, was also a jet black. The
Melvin horse. by Royal Morgan. was a
light gray. NJ lrgan Tiger, by Cock of
the Rock, another son of Sherman
{ Morgan, was also a light gray; and
Boston Tiger, another son of Cock or
the Rock, was roam. Fox Morgan,
!, bv Comet, son of Billy Root, by Sher-
: man Morgan, was coal black; yet
e Comet, his sire, was a chestnut and III.
| bred to Sherman Morgan, his dam be-
= ing by Royal Morgan, a son OF Sher-
t man Morgan. The dam of Billy Root,
e sire of Comet, was by Justin Morgan,
4 as was also the dam of Royal Morgan,
d both Billy Root and Royal Morgan be-
= inc by Sherman Morgan. BY this it
= will be seen that Comet, sire of tins
: coal.black Fox Morgan, was one of the
: strongest Inbred MOrgans of his time.
r The dam of Royal Morgan was a
wonderful mare. She raised foal the
It summer after she was 30 years OLD,
q Blackstone Belle C2;2S y, by Whale
l. bone, son of Sherman Morgan, as has
it been previously mentioned, was black
;. Those writers who try to raise d
it doubt concerning the breeding of Yer
1t mont Black Hawk, on account OF his
:, color, show their utter ignorance OF
l. disregard OF facts by insisting that
= thoroughbred horse stamps his color
Is upon his offspring with unvaryine
Of certaintv.. Every one acqualnt
n ed with the horse history of this coun
r try knows such statements to be shal
c. low misrepresentation. The tour i'm
l. ported horses. from which have de
IN scended more last trotters than from
It. all the other thoroughbred aud import
8 ed horses that ever stood in America
b. were Messenger, whose color wa
el gray; Diomed, chestnut; Grand Bias
in baw, a black, and Beltounder, bloc,
is bay. Although the majority of Messen
err gers sons and daughters were gray
l.
r. hops Hambletoniau and MambrinC
Id took their color from their dams, an
II. we're bays, as were nearly all of thei
" descendants. Every one acquainte
lis with the facts knows that there wt
ok quite as large proportion OF the g
a of Bishops llambletonian and Man
nd brine, bays, as there were of Vernon
tv Black Hawks that were black, despi
ne the fact that The former were sons OF
s., gray horse. Plato, full brother to Ri
IT, hops Hambletonian, was brow
err Another son of Messenger was blaC
in horse, foaed in 1901, and known
IT. Black Messenger. He was vel
ng strong horse, standing fully sixtet
ne hands high. Coriander, by importC
Messenger, was a fifteen and hs
all hands bay horse. Another son, ca Il
am Fagdown, was brown, and two of Me
to senger's daughters, which now occ
she to mind, were Romp, a bay mare, al
ian Silvertail, whose color was da
.el- brown. These are only a few of {
,od many instances that might be me
yer toned, and are named because the
OF color was in such contrast to that
wk their sire.
ey, Rysdvks Hambetonian was one
,m. the strongest inbred Messengers of
to day. The majority of his get are ba
.ate or brow is, yet the man who would q
BEL tempt to dispute that any animal W
out not a son of Hambletoniau, from
Mr.. simple fact that its color differed fro
lied the prevailing color of the iami
At would be considered an ignoramus a
and a fiji subject of rdicule by every bree
lck, err of experience and common sci
hat, throughout the world. Among the {
, it scendants of Diomed the chestnut C
by or prevailed largely. Seely's Anne
re- can Star, which was inbred to the ID
Tor med strains. was a chestnut, yet
that daughter Clara, the dam of Dexter
lars Dictator, was a small black ma
title standing only about fourteen and
inst half hands high. Dictator is bro
case horse, yet his most noted son, jazz
iced See, is a black, although his dam, NJ
that night, was gray, as was also her 81
ices Pilot Jr. Director, another son of :
tat0r ont of Daily nv Nam brine III