Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-10
THE BREEDING OF BLACK MARIA
DAM OF YOUNG COLUMBUS.

DAM OF YOUNG COLUMBUS.
From further Investigations it has be-
come very evident that this famous mare
was sired by Young Cock of the Rock
(called the Yale Horse by Mr.. Linsley),
son of Barnum's Cock of the Rock, he by
Duroc, son of imp. Domed.
Among the papers of Mr.. Harvey Yale
we found these bills of sale:
"This day bought of Harvey Yale, his stud
horse called Fos, and took said horse on my
own risk, better or worse, whether he be
i. A. SMITH.
Huntington, May Is, 1881"
HUNTINGTON, May Is, 1881.
This day sold to Harvey Yale two yearling
colts which am to keep two months free
from expense but he is to venture the loss of
said colts, provided they should die from any
accident. (Si4ned.)
4. A. SMITH"
Mr.. Yale states that the two yearling
colts were taken as part pay for Fox.
This fixes the date of the sale of Fox and
shows that he could not have been the
horse that sired Black Maria, as she was
foaled, as all agree, either in 1884 or
1885, and undoubtedly the latter year.
The following bill was also found
among Mr.. Iale's papers:
"Received, May 20, 1894, of Harvey Yale, his
note and other property to the amount OF 5000
tor IL certain stud horse, formerly owned by
Joseph Smcad Bradley. said horse il sired
by The Cock of the Rock. tsigned,)
AZOR SMEAD.
Mr.. Yale says that he kept this horse.
which he called Young Cock of the Rock,
but one season, letting him 90 the same
summer to Milo SaXton. of whom he
bought a farm, and letting his service
book 90 with him. He does not recOllect
positively whether this horse was bred
to any mare of William Wainwright'S
but knows that he had him up on that
road for service. and thinks very proba-
bic that Mr.. Wainwright who was fire.
quent breeder to his horses. did breed Il
mare to Young Cock of the Rock that
year. Mr.. Yale describes Young Cock of
the Rock as "a lightish bay horse, about
$50 pounds, good head, long. slim neck,
very long sloping hip. good limbs smooth,
pretty horse; high-spirited, smooth trav-
eler, a good-gaited horse; sprightly,
Cock of the Rock. He was not broke
very well-as likely as not would have
stepped on my foot. Fox never would
have done it,"
Mr.. Iale's book for 1896 shows that
William Wainwright bred his mare that
year to one of Mr.. Yale's horses. This
book began in 1925, and from the history
already published that Mr.. Yale has Civ
en- us of his horses it was no doubt the
book of his horse Arab, son of the Bng-
ham Horse by Jones Dey of Algiers, he
by imported Dey of Algiers. Arabian.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Lock-
with him, said of Black Maria that "she
was sired by bay horse that Harvey Yale
had about 900 or 1000 lbs, very prompt.
nice, small horse, all fire." Mr.. VAIN
wright also thought this was a young
horse; he also thought that the dam of
Black Maria was descended from Cock of
the Rock, but as this was impossible. it is
extremely probable that in the lapse of so
y
in his memory the blood of the sire with
that of the dam.
Mr. Horace Thomas of Salisbury, Yer
mont now Seventy-Seven years old, who
married, in December. 1885. daugh-
ter of William Wainwright, said ''The
dam of Black Maria brought a black
horse colt, called Cub, first. sorrcl one
next, then the black mare, Black Maria !:
then the little bay mare that the old gen
tleman kept. The old gentleman turned
out to Ioclllin two or three horse kind !:
this black mare, | think, was not but two
or three years old when he turned her i'm
to Jennings toward his place. Cannot
say what horse sired her. Harvey Yale
had one and Daniel Shay had one and
there were others. Shay had this SOrrel
colt Of Wainwright. | remember Yale's
being through here with a stallion. do
not remember any Remington horse nor
any Eddy horse. | am pretty sure the
mare was not more than two or three
years old when Wainwright let her 90.
If she had been four, he would have brok-
en- her, but he never broke this mare |
never knew William Wainwright to send
or take his mare away; he always bred
to what horse came along and as cheap as
he could. Three to five dollars was the
price, but Jones Arabian stood at twenty
dollars. Jones lived at the glass factory.
The dam of Black Maria was IA little bow
backed, pretty long neck, rather big
head, roan-nOt very high-headed.
knew the Dart mare; she was roam also.
Dart used TO raise colt every year from
the old mare.