Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ETC.
BY ALLEN W. THOMSON.
Iartlllellt.

The Morse Horse. the sire of the dam
of Quechee Maid, was by Young Morrill,
lis. have not been able to learn the
blood of the dam of the Morse Horse.
Some say she was Morgan and presume
she was, but it is better not to say so
without knowing it to be so. tluechee
Maids grandam was by the ellison horse,
Il dark roam horse that was owned by Il
Mr.. ellison of Hartand. VT. The ellison
horses sire was French Canadian horse
that was worked on the railroad when
they were working it through lIartland.
He was called fast.
The Morse Horse was bred by James
Morse and foaled lS55. He was bay.
II 81 hands, and weighed about 100 lbs.
He was not pure gated; inclined to sim
gle foot: toe weights would have made
him trot very fast. He was solda TAX
cn to Virginia the last of 1850.
There was Il horse called Blazing Star
that was raised and kept in Woodstock
several years. that was thought very
highly of. We find his cross in many of
the pedigreeS of the horses here. lie was
bred by a Mr. Bridge of South Wood
/ stock and foaled in ISIS. One old horse
man, now dead. told me that Blazing
Stars sire was Il large bay horse that was
called Dutch blood; his dam was a very
fine black English mare. She gave her
color to her son. but not the white strip
he had in his face.
In looking over the files of the old pa
pers in the new Norman Williams Libra
ry. in the Woodstock Observer for May
ls23 | find the advertisement of the
horse Slow and Easy. 1t states that the
horse would be kept at STAFFORD. Tun-
bridge, Randolph, ROyaltOn. Sharon and
IIartland at So 81 and Sc; that he was
bred to 100 mares last season and that he
drew the premium at the Windsor county
fair last fall that his sire was the noteC
horse Young Traveller, owned by Charles
West of Providence. X. l.: z. sire, imp
Old Traveller; Young Travellers dam, the
turf mare slippery Whiskey, owned 10y
Mr.. Bigelow, Rhode Island; Slow ant
Easy's dam full blood bay Dutch mare
known by the name of Slow and Easy
, bred by Judge Nanderloop of New York
l purchased of him by Charles West 70
$500. Slow and Easy is blood ba!
with black name and tail, not whit
hair about him, IL hands, easy under tn
saddle and powerful in the harness
: Signed, Simeon Smith, Hartford, April
lS23. 1t states in the advertisement 70
1873 that Slow and Easy was bred il
Rhode Island. 1t looks AZ though Slov
and Easy was the Dutch horse that wa
= the sire of Blazing Star. The statement
e ''easy under the saddle" indicates pac
' ing gait. The mare Slow and Easy ma,
= have been PAGER. The name rather in
dicates it. One writer ruth llall) state
: "that Thomas +. Turner of Warren
n North Carolina, about 1890 importe
Y from Narragansett bay light chestnu
t mare called Free and Easy As wa
o her name so was her pace. Pedigrees /
+ the South prior to the issuing of the TuI
o Register depended on manuscripts O
r memory and thence followed transpos
:, tons and sometimes errors" In my neN
: | will give some advertisements | hav
d found for the horse ''Old Woodbury. MOI
y gan, the most noted of the Justin MOI
# gan's sons, and the facts in regard to tn
: claim that Flora Temples grandam wa
y one of Old Woodbury. Morgan's daugl
|, tiers. 1t is fact that Flora Temple
/ shape and make of her head greatly r.
n sembled the Morgans.