The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-17

| mate over the same course, in 2.29 l-2.
In 1859 he also scored three victories,
the first at Union Course, l.. L., May
Is, for purse of $4,000, with run
ming mate, against. Lantern and run
ming mate.
This was very closely contested
race. The first heat was won by Lam
tern and mate in 81 -, the second by
Ethan and mate in 2.27 l-2, the third
by Ethan and mate in 2.40, the fourth
was dead heat in 2 80, the fifth falling
to Ethan aud mate in 50. His next
race that season was at Blu lington, VT,
| where he beat the celebrated trotter
Tacopy in short order, and his third
was at this city, Oct. II, which he won
beating Columbus, Jr., in straight
heats. His fastest race in single har-
ness occurred al Union Course, l.. l.,
July II, 1860, his competitor being the
renow ned mare Princess, which after
ward dropped the bay stallion Happy
! Medium, sire of Maxey Cobb, 2.13 Ia,
and Meta Medium with double-team
record, hitched with Maxey Cobb, of
2.1j 3.l. Ethan won in two heats, the
second of which he trotted in 2.25 1-2,
distancng the mare.
|
ly strong and his disposition the best
imaginable, two qualities which en-
abled him, when hitched with running
mate, to outstrip every competitor that
could be brought against him in that
rig. During the season of 1861, hitched
with runner, he won three races from
| the world-renowned Flora Temple,
| rugged in the same style, in one of
which he placed his mark at PIG 3-4
In 1862 he captured but one race, and
that in single harness, after which he
was retired from the turf till 1860, when
he won a single race. In 1866 he won
two races, one at Brattleboro, VT, the
other at Lowell, Mass. In May, 1867,
at Union Course, L. l., he beat Brown
George and running mate i'll straight
heats; time, 2.29, 221, 2.19. The
browning event of his life, however,
was the race in which, htched with
running mate, he challenged the admir-
alton of the world by defeating the
mighty Dexter, which was then sup
posed to be invincible,a lat Union Course.
! l.. =, June II, 1867, in short order,
landing at the wire in 2.15, PIG, PIG
respectively. Good judges estimated
! him capable of trotting the first heat in
,. - had he been sent with that inten-
ton.
During his turf career he came to the
wire winner in thirty-three races,
| twenty-five of which were to single
| harness. The gross value of his earn
ings in purses was S46,645, instead of
$1,000, as was stated by prominent
| turf journal a few years since, where
| ho nj N
races. During the season of 1867 he
was purchased by Mr.. j. f. Maynard
of this city, who had previously owned
him. Nov. >, 1868, he was bought by
Mr.. Wesley p. Balch, also of this city,
who sold him to Col. II. s. Russell.
lie was finally bought by Amasa
Sprague, Oct. II, 1880, for 81 900, and
died the property of Sprague and
Akers, at Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 10,
1876.
During his limited career in the stud
he got sixty-nine winners of public
races, six of which are found iii the
, 80 list. Twenty-four of his sons have
proved their capacity to get successful
turf performers, the greatest Of which,
| Daniel Lambert, who has already pro-
duced upwards of seventy winners OF
public racers, twenty-five of which are
t. be found III the charmed circle. The
total number of inners got by all OF
Ethan Aliens sons exceeds $50. 1t is
a singular fact that every one of his
fastest trotters, and also his sons which
proved most successful in the stud, were
| got before he retired from the TUT.
The summary of trotting events for
1857 does not show that Ethan was ell
gagged in any turf contest. During this
season he got Daniel Lambert and De.
Longs Ethan Allen, but no turf per
formers to beat 2.20. In 1858 he got
the beautiful trottiug mare Pocahontas,
G 26 3-D, for which Mr.. Robert Bon.
ner paid upwards of $50, 900, and dur.
ing the same season got Dlxon's Ethan
Allen, sire of Sensation (2.22 l.2), and
credited with winning forty-five heats
in 80 or better.
May IS, 1859, Ethan Allen, with run.
ming mate, won purse of $4,000,
beating Lantern and mate, and in a lit.
tie more than three months and hall
from that time beat Tacony, in race
at Burlington. 1t was during this sea,
son that he got Woodward's Ethan Al.
len, sire of six 2.30 performers. Hol.
lands Ethan Allen, sire of Barney Kel
ley (2.25) and Holabird's Ethan Allen
sire of Laura Williams (2,24 1-2) and
Charley Mac (2.25). Bacon's Ethan
Allen, sire of three 2.30 performers
was got by him prior to 1859. Iii.
fastest trotter, by the records, Billy
Barr (2.23 3-4), was got in 1860, anC
Hotspur (2.24) in his most successful
campaign, in 1861, which was some six
years before he placed his mark witt
running mate at 2.lj.
From the facts already given con
corning the breeding of the celebrated
horses, Justin Morgan, Vermont BLACK
Hawk and Ethan Allen, those whose
: minds are unbiased can form their owl
opinions concerning these much dis
, cussed questions. The aim has beer
; to present all the facts that could be OBJ
tanned upon both sides of the contro
versy, and if it may have appeared
) that those who advocate Paddy as tn,
2 sire of Vermont Black Hawk and Fly
inc MORGAN as tho afro nf Ethan A Hon