The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-21

muCn lOW6T UebS6 16araUCe drove
her a trial over Fleetwood in 2:26 1.2.
The above are the only ones that have
ever had anything like a decent show,
and part of these have been treated
shamefully. l do not not think there
is a horse living that has ever produced
more speed from as poor mares in the
So me number of colts"
Fanny, 2:27.
Our enterprising young friend,
Charles l.. Woodwork of Cadyville,N.
Y.,some weeks ago informed us that he
had very strong evidence to show that
the chestnut trotting mare Fanny
(2:29) vas by Hutchinson Morrill,, a
son of old Morrill, that has always been
kept by Hezekiah Hutchinson, Esq, at
Tunbridge, VT. Mr.. Woodwork stat
ed that his evidence was in the hands
of S. W. Parlin, Esq, the ~gentlemanly
and accomplished editor of Horse Notes
in The american CultjUdtor. Shortly
afterwards Mr.. Parlin addressed us the
following inquiry: els Flying Banner
(Which Wallace credits with being the
sire of Fanny and Hutchinson Morrill,
one and the same animal2 If the
Hutchinson horse got Fam. (2:29) he
ought to be registered as standard"
We replied that they were two differ
ent horses, Flying Banner, formerly
owned by Chester Huckins, Corinth,
VT, being a son of Black Banner, he
by Vermont Black Hawk, and Hutch
inson Morrill, being bred and owned as
above stated; and also intimated that
we had no doubt that the chestnut
mare Fanny (2:29) was by Flying Ban
ner. This mare was long owned by
Daniel Bigley of Boston, and was
known as Dan Bigley's chestnut mare.
Mr.. Woodwork, having received his
papers back from Mr.. Parlin, with the
remark from that gentleman that he
agreed with us that the mare was prob
ably by Flying Banner, Mr.. Wood
worth sent the papers to us. The evi.
dence was certainly remarkable, com
ing from parties with whom we were
acquainted and of whose credit and
veracity there could be no question.
The first letter to Mr.. Woodwork
was from G.. II. Woodland, proprietor
of the South Royalton House, South
Royalton, VT, dated May 4, 1885, and
stated as follows: "By request of Jesse
Smith l answer yours of April 30.
There is a mare called Fanny whose
record is 2:27, by Old Hutchinson, also
Rosa b., record 2:33. Both were
owned in Providence, Il. l., and /
think one of them is there now"
The next was from Hezekiah Hutch
inson, Esq, of Tunbridge, owner of
Hutchinson Morrill,, dated June 10,
1885, and stated: There was a mare
named Fanny, sired by the Hutchinson
horse and owned by Geo. Amsden of
Connecticut, that had a record, | think,
of 1922.
The mex was a postscript to a letter
dated July II, ult., from j. w. Smith
of Tunbridge, breeder and former own
er of Hutchinson Morrill, Chen called
Smith MorrilD and stated: "The mare
called Fanny that the Utton boys had
vas sired by the old horse Hutchinson
MorrilD. She was raised IN this town."
CThe Utton boys had this mare to train,
but never owned herr
On the Nth ult. we addressed a note
to Jesse NJ. Smith, the well-known
householder of Pawtucket, r. l., in
curing what he knew about "the
breeding of Dan Bigley's chestnut mare
Fanny, record 2.29." Mr.. Smith re-
piled, under date of July q. 1885: 81
know nothing about Dan Bigley's chest
nut mare Fanny. The Fanny that |
know was raised in Tunbridge, VT, by
Ichabod Tucker, and he told me thai
she was got by the Hutchinson horse
and Mr.. Tucker sold her to DR.. White,
who lived in Tunbridge at that time,
and DR.. White sold her 10 Mr.. Bartlett
of Providence, r. l., and Mr.. Bartlett
sold her to George Amsden of the same
place, and lille he owned her she got
a record o f2:27, and he sold her about
two years ago to some one in New
York, so | learned; and that is all |
know about her."
1t occurred to us on receipt of this
letter that such a thing as two horses
of the same name had been known in
the world, and looking into Wallace
we found that he had all along known
that there were two different animals
in this puzzle, of which Mr.. Sanders
las taken the sire of the one and the
record of the other and neatly combin.
ed the two. Wallace gives:
Fanny, CHI m. by Flying Banner, Boston,
Oct. IA, 2!
Fanny, oh M. Cranston. r. l., June %.
1879. y -
But with his usual habit of guessing
where he don't know and guessing
wrong, Wallace states in his 3rd Vol,
that this mare probably came from
Canada, and in the 9th, after several
years of investigation, he calmly places
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