The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
Fifty Race TrOtters-Hannis.

Fifty Race TrOtterS-HanniS.
We furnished last year for the Spirit
Of the Times table showing all the
trotters that had started in fifty or more
races each, giving the family to which
each belonged on the sire's side as far
as known, and the blood of the dams as
far as ascertained, The pedigrees of
manyof these famous campaigners were
found to be obscure, especially on the
dams side, and we have since given
great deal of time and attention to in
vestigating the same. When the work of
revision is completed as far as practical
BILE, the revised tables will be given in
the REGISTER.
The chestnut stallion Hannis (2:17-
3-4) stands in this list, having started
in sixty-seven races, twenty-one of
which he won. The fullest attempt at
pedigree to be found in any register
is that given by Wallace in Vol, 3, as
follows:
"Hannis, CHI. b., foaled 1870; got by
Mambrino Pilot son of Mambrino
Chief; dam, the trotting mare Lady
Stewart, that was brought from YER
mont and owned lumber of years by
j. E. Stewart of Boston, pedigree not
traced. Bred by; owned by A. E.
Clay baugh OF Baltimore: sold to David
Logan"
Mr.. Wallace has repeatedly remark
ed and continues to rciteratc that he
knows nothing of the breeding of ii
horse until he knows his breeder, which
is true. AS he does not know the
breeder of liannis, he therefore does
not know that he was got by Mambrino
Pilot or any other given horse, or out
of Lady Stewart or any other given
mare; although he has made him a
STANDARD horse on the strength OF
that pedigree. We do not know what
horse sired llannis, but we have been
informed and believe that the mare
that brought him has been traced and
identified as mare owned several
years by j E. Stewart of Boston and
which was sold to one Streeter of Bos-
ton by horse dealer from Vermont.
Concerning this mare we have the fol-
lowing information:
WOODSTOCK, VT, Sept, u, 1885.
JOSEPH BATrELL, ESQ, Ripton, Vt.
Dear Sir:-John Adams of Andover
was the horse dealer that let Streeter
of Boston have the dam of ii ,nnis.
went to his place in 1873 and had a long
talk with hun. lie remembered the
mare well; said young man, Loren
Newton, (since deadJ rode the mare
when they took her to Boston; that she
trotted by number on the road. Mr.
Adams said he had bought horses IN
Pswlet, Wells, Middletown, Brandon
and Salem, N. Y. He bought five at
one time OF Hastings of Brandon. Mr.
Adams said there was young lady
living with him at the time he had the
mare that had married Alison White OF
Mt. Holly, Mechanicsville, VT, and he
thought she could tell something about
the mare. Mr.. Adams son, Abner
lived close by. Staid all night with
him. lie could not remember ANYTHING
about it. | went and saw Mis-. White
She remembered the mare well; said
Abner called her his; that Streeter had
her. She thought Abner went of one
Sunday and came back with her. She
knew how old she was when she lived
at Adams and we made it about 1857
that Adams bought the mar, some
two years earlier than it is called in the
Times. She said Abner drove hel
(the mare) to Chester one time anC
beat them all out with her trotting.
understand Mr.. Adams aud his son Alb
ner are dead. lie has son, John O
living at Chester. | have had severa
talks with him. He says he and hi
father bought four-year-old chestnu
mare tit was the same year Mr.. Adam
bought llannis' dam in Salem, n. Y
lie let his father have her and took
gray horse. | told him to ask his fathe
if it was the one he lei Streeter have
and he said he did, and he said it wa
not. | have thought there might b
some mistake about it ana that 1t Nigh
be the one.
Peter Wheeler of Cavendish wrot
me week ago that he thought MI
Adams and Mr.. Newton got the mar
at Pawlet, | wrote Mrs. White shor
time ago; have received no answer. |
will be best for you to see her; ask 70
the letter | wrote her, and have her al
swer as many of The questions as sh
can.
have given you all the informatio
l have in regard to the dam of Hanni:
Perhaps if you should advertise, som
one might be wing that would kno,
about Mr. Adams buying the mare.
Yours truly,