The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
The MOrrills.
III.

Winthrop Morrill,, as will be seen,
was very closely inbred to the Morgan
line. In direct male descent he was Of
the sixth generation from Justin Nor
gan. His sire, Young Morrill,, was of
the fifth in direct male line, fourth
through the sire of his dam, and fifth
through the dam of his dam from the
same fountain. The dam of the Huck-
ins Horse (sire of the dam of Winthrop
Morrlll) is unknown, but Royal Nor
gan, sire of the Huckins Horse, was
out of the Aldrich mare, daughter of
Justin Morgan, so that, through his
dam, Winthrop again stands twice in
the fifth generation from Justin Nor
gan; and while from the dam of Old
Morrill, and the dam of the Jennison
colt he derived blood known not to be
Morgan, he had no known and desig-
mated blood except OF that family.
When ten years old, Young Morrill,
got the noble stallion F~earnaught, a
horse of unsurpassed beauty, speed and
excellence. ~Fearnaught was a rich,
glossy chestnut, with star and one
white hind foot, stood 10 1-2 hands, and
weighed 1000 lbs. He was bred by G.
c.. Brown of Newmarket or Stratham,
N. H.; foaled in 1859; dam by the
Steve French Horse, son of Flint Nor
gan, he by Sherman Morgan. lie was
purchased of his breeder by b. S.
Wright, esq, (now of the firm of
Wright Il Norcross, F~earnaught Stock
Farm, Manchester, Me.), who in turn
sold him to Col. Vi. s. Russell of Mil
ton, Mass, who owned him until his
death, August 5, 1873, at the age of
fourteen years. In style and bearing
~Fearnaught was ''every inch a king;
his form vas the ideal of equine per-
f%ecIion; his action, easy, t~rictionless
, and powerful. Although used mostly
in the stud, and not a campaigner, he
was lord OF the track when in training,
aud, at nine years old at Buffalo, July
20, 1868, he won the $4,000 purse and
; a record of 1928 Ii, the fastest stalli n
record at that time. Although Col. Rus
sci owned Smuggler when he also
broke the stallion record eight years
later and carried the figures down to
2:1j IA, he says of F~earnaught, "IIe
was the best horse | ever knew"
~Fearnaught sired Argonaut (2:?3-
3 y, Galatea (2:2j 1-2), and Fear
naught, jr., (2:2G). Argouiut is a bay
horse, bred by j.. W. Robinson, Brock
ton, Mass, from a Kentucky mare of
unknown breeding. ~Fearnaught, jr.,
is a chestnut horse very like his sire.
He was bred at Stratham, n. H., foaled
in 1863; dam said to be by Abdallah
what a world of daughters Abdalldh
gotD lie was bought when a yearling
by b. 5. Wright, esq, of Boston, who
sold a year later one-half interest in
him to E. l.. N~orcross, esq, Manches.
ter, Me. lie is still owned by Messrs.
Wright Il Norcross. lie is sire OF
Pemberton (2:29 l-2), Sontag (2:3l 3-4)
auG others with creditable records.
%Fearnaught Prince, another son OF
~Fearnaught, is sire of Parole (2:2O.
, Carenaught, son of F~earnaught, dam
by Thoroughbred Cadmus, and owned
also by Messrs. Wright ~ Norcross, is
getting a speedy and highly finished
) line of stock. Mr.. E. l.. Norcross also
, owned the brown stallion Manchester,
son of Fearnaught; dam by old Cassius
NJ. Clay. Manchester is the sire of jim
, Crow (2:26). Western Fearnaught,
another son of Fearnaught, sired
n NJ htll I = = oi
Whitcomb's Fearnaught, son of Fear
, naught, dam by old Ethan Allen, wa:
a small horse 10 hands high, weighing
D 925 lbs. "a deemed a failure in the
q stud and was gelded after getting sew
enteen foals; yet of these seventeen,
, says the american C~ultiUdtOr, five have
; beaten 2:30 in trials. JJe Irving, 8
son Of Whitcomb's ~Fearnaught out of 8
mare by Gen. Knox, was kept entire
for a while and got a few colts, all 81
which are proving TO be trotters; but
, Joe Irving was long since added to the
list of geldings. Whitcomb's Fear
Daught was the first of the union of the
! fastest entire male descendant of Bull
: rush with a daughter of the fastest en-.
tire male descendant of Sherman, and
tnat daughter herself a trotter that had
shown her mile in 2:2S. 1t would
seem to have been the work of foolish
hands to cut of 50 promising a line Of
speed and beauty.
. This is but a partial list of the fast
3 descendants of F~earnaught. His daugh.
. tiers and more remote female Issue are
= much sought for as brood mares and
4 several of his %grandsOns are doing stud
= service and getting trotters in the West
4 The Fearnaught farm of Messrs
? Wright ~ Norcross at Manchester, Me.
is the headquarters of the F~earnaught
8 stock, and they annually send out rep
. resentatIves of the highest merit, The
family is as yet very young-its found
er lived but a short life and has beer
dead twelve years-but were he aliy'
he would now be but twenty-six year.
o old.
There are several sons of Old Morril
2 represented in the 2:30 list by their de
. scendants. which have not yet beer
o mentioned, viz: