Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-11
THE "STONE MARE" BY NORTH
AMERICAN.

THE STONE MARE" BY NORTH
AMERICAN.
DAM OF CHARLEY MAC, 2:25, AND LAURA
WILLIAMS, 2:24 I-2.
We have looked up the evidence aS to
the breeding of this excellent mare. to
whom is due the credit of bearing two
t~rotters with records better than two
thirty by IIolabird's Ethan Allen. The
evidence which establishes the fact that
her sire was the Bullock Horse. North
American, is as follows:
S%IoREIAM. VT, March IS, 1856.
Edtor Register Il send you herewith
the pedigree of Greyhound, Il son of
Hills Black Hawk. His dam was a Mes
senger mare owned by Luther Stone of
Charlotte, VT; she also being the dam of
Laura Williams. and. | think. of Charley
Mac.
Greyhound was foaled in 1888; took
first premium at Vermont State fair in
his classes at three and five years old.
He was bought of Stone by George Fowl
of Alexandria, Va, in 1876. He was
kept by him on the Long Island course.
in the hands of VIM. Wheeler. for Il wear:
was then sold to Lloyd Minturn; stood
the season of 1888 at Nergennes, Ferris
burgh and Charlotte: stood in 1859. go at
F~crri>burgh; taken to Waterloo. y. Y.
in fall of 1850 and stood there and in
n~eighboring towns until 1872. In his
youth he was Il very dark iron-grey, very
stylish. with good action. stood. | think.
II -.
Yours truly.
Il. h. MINTURN.
Mr.. Henry Thorp of Charlotte. VT.
says :"John Leonard of Orwell. VT. bred
Il gray mare sometime in the fOrticS and
sold her to +. /. Chapman, then of White
hall, y. Y. but late of Burlington. VT.
recently deceased. Chapman had the mare
in thc winter when she was three past.
and trotted her ON the ice. 1t was said
she would then trOt in about three min
uteS. The next summer Mr.. Chapman
stump fence. Chapman was then run
ming an opposition boat on Lake Cham
plain; he saw David Hill, who told him
he would cure the mare up and have her
Pi'' W ihN LAW - llll N'lll WI lll'
mare. cured her and bred her to Black
Hawk and she produced Il gray filly that
Chapman sold afterwards to man named
Bean in York State, This tilly got injured,
passed into the hands of a man in Monk
ton, afterwards to l.. \. Drew of Bur-
lington.
1.-The next year, after bearing the gray
tilly, Mr.. +. ID. Chapman bred the first
named gray mare back to Black Hawk
and produced Greyhound, described in
the foregoing letter of Mr.. Minturn.
Chapman went To Texas and left the
mare with his brother-in-law, Luther
Stone, to keep. She was in Stones hands
when Greyhound was foaled. Mr.. Stone
bred from her, among others, the trotters
Charley Mac and Laura Williams. She
also brought IA gray colt by GOdOlphin,
son of sherman Black Hawk. and full
brother to the famous King lIerod. This
gray colt was Il trotter and was sold for
500, and went to New York. where he
was favorably heard from. She brought
one other foal to IIolabird's Ethan. be-
fore Charley Mac; this was Il fine gray
gclding and passed into the hands of
him with a brown and sold the pair to IL
Mr.. Pearl of Boston for a large price. He
was about the color of Greyhound and
was considered by many the best of the
thrnn rpt h- EtI.,, - n,,. ;p,,, NJ,
Thorp, now has another foal of the Stone
mare, which is Il gray mare by the Root
horse, son of Greyhound. This last mare
brought the black gelding Robert Lee,
pa -, by Fiddler, son of Vermont
Black Hawk, owned by one Calkins of
Ticonderoga. The Stone mare also pro-
duced IA roam tilly by "A dark bay roar
son of Black Hawk, then owned by Da-
vid Hill. This tilly Mr.. Stone got II mate
for and they made a nice pair. The
stone mare also produced Il black mare
by the Palmer horse, Il black son of Yer
mont Black Hawk, owned by \. c. Palm
er of East Charlotte, VT, and several
others. All her foals except the first
were produced while She was in the pos
session of Luther Stone, who became her
owner not long after she came into his
hands.
Mr.. Thorp states that David Hill al
ways said that this noted gray mare was
sired by the Bullock Horse, North Amer
lean; that he was originally anxious to
breed her to Black Hawk because she was
a daughter of North American, which he
said was good breeding enough for any
body. Mr.. Hill had the mare at four
years old from Il. ID. Chapman, who had
her of her breeder, John Leonard. She
was a mare that had attracted attentinn