Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-03
ORIGIN OF THE BLUE BULLS.

ihSloH, ~ -, we nave lIle following
further replies to our questions:
QUESTION. Will you please state of
whom you got the stallion that you sold
to j. ID. English?
ANSWER. | cannot state whom | did
get him of; | think of English.
Q. What year did you buy him?
A. | cannot say, unless | was at home
to get dates.
Q. By whom and where was he bred?
A. j. ID. English took care of him for
me. He stood at Dillsborough, Sparta,
Moore's Hill and Wilmington, all in
Dearborn county, Indiana.
Q. What was his pedigree as far as
known?
A. | cannot give his pedigree, only
Blue Bull. If you would write to j. ID.
English, he could give all the nforma-
ton, or Dan. Dorrell.
z. Was he blind in one eve?
A. He was.
q. Did he have white legs to knees
and hooks, or only white feet:
q. Did Mr.. English keep this horse
while you owned him?
A. He did.
Q. Did English have any other stallion
at this time:
a. He did not | sold him another
afterwards.
q. To whom did he sell this stallion
that lie bought of you and what became
of him afterwards:
\. do not know. If was at home
might get more dates, but it has been Il
long time since have thought anything
about him.
q. What was your stations name:
a. sam.
From the testimony given it appears
extremely probable that the great sire
of trotters, Wilson's Blue Bull, was a
son of this horse once owned by Mr..
Faulkner. and that this horse, now known
as Prudens Blue Bull. was bred by
Samuel Mexican of Morgan township.
Butler Co., Ohio. who sold him when
young to Solomon Bedinger of Harrison,
o.; that Bedinger kept him till about five
years old and traded him to his hired man.
Michael Little. who took him to Aurora,
Ind, and traded him to James ID. English,
who sold him to Charles Il. Faulkner.
but still continued to keep and tend him,
and after three Years bought him back.
The horse is easily followed by his pecu-
liar marks, his loss of an eye, and the
name Sam" from the first name of his
breeder, as well as by the direct testi-
mony of English Mr.. Faulkner and
James X. Pruden. The horse appears to
have been foaled about 1871. After Eng
lish became the second time his owner il
appears that he passed through several
hands into the possession of James X.
Pruden, then Of Logan township, Ind,
but now of Harrison, Ohio, who got him
in 1863, and judged him to be seventeen
or eighteen years old. In Pruden's hands
the horse was recognized by both Bedin.
ger and Little, who could hardly have
been mistaken in the identity of horse
of his peculiar appearance; and that
Wilson's Blue Bull was sired by thi.
horse that Pruden owned, known as Pru-
den's Blue Bull, there seems to be nc
doubt.
Concerning the pedigree of Pruden's
Blue Bull it appears by the statement OF
Harry Dearlnond of Okeana, o., and
Others that he was sired by horse best
known as Merring's Blue Bull, but pre-
yiously called Ohio Farmer, and, still
earlier, Pennsylvania Farmer, and thai
his dam was bred by Samuel Mexican
foaled as early as 1885 and got by horse
called Post Boy, good horse that came
from the north and was kept at "Jen
kins' stand" by man named Randolph
Ross. Mornings Blue Bull, according t.
the statements of Z. Otto, of Harrison
Geo. GrOyens and Jonathan Hall of Nor
gan township, o., and Mr.. Dearmond
hands high or over and weighing abou
1900 lbs, of gentle disposition, bluisl
dun in color with black stripe down tn,
back. He had rather large head, blacl
name and tail, bald face and either on,
or two watch eyes; he had no particular
speed; there seems to be no evidenc,
that he was Il PAGER but he got PAGERS
and his progeny were stout and servicea
Bile horses. lie was driven in four-hors,
team 10 Harrison, Ohio, from Pennsyl
vania, by man whose name is under
stood to have been Snively, about 1925
being then about four years old. H'
was directly bought by John Merring o.