Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-12
OLD HORSE ADVERTISEMENTS.

Inc following advertisements are OPP
led from volume l.. of The Vermont
Aurora, published at Nergennes. In No.
Is of that volume, bearing date May -.
1926. are these:
The w~ell-known horse Telescope will
stand this season at I. Stevcns's Tavern
in N%eIgennes and at stable of the sub
scriber in Ferri>burgh.
HENRY CRONCK.
Ferrisburgh, May II, 1873.
Cock of the Rock will be kept at Yer
geuneS. The terms are twenty dollars
whether mares prove in foal or not. To
save trouble, travel and disappointment
the public are informed that no deduction
will be made from that price.
a. W. BARNUM.
Nergennes, 18th April, 1875.
independence at Addison. Panton and
Nergennes. Independence is four years
old, of IA light bay color and for beauty,
size and stock will compare with any
horse in the country.
DAVID JACKSON.
Addison, May 10, 1925.
Cock of the Rock appears in a similar
advertisement in 1926, and also again
'The noted horse Telescope" at 81 and
So. Also this
Posi- BoN.-The subscriber purchased
ON the 3D. day of May, 1926. the celebrat-
ed and thoroughbred English horse
Post Boy. which will stand the coming
season at the stable of Col. joel DoDlitt.lc
in Shoreham at the moderate price of 81
and So, the same he has always stood at
at the stable of John Earl of Warwick.
Worcester. Mass.
Post Boy was bred by said Earl OF his
" farm: he was sired by the noted
horse DinWiddie. the name of the county
in Virginia where the DinWiddic was
was bred. said horse was purchased by
said Earl and Luther Smith at the price
of $1,000. cash. The dam of Post Boy
was purchased by said Earl in the city of
Charleston. :. e.. at the price of $3.50.
She was Il t~ir>tratc English mare and VA,
II - hands high. Post Boy is II hands.
of Il dark bay roam color. is uncommOnly
handsome and of great speed. He has
run Il number of races not exceeding
one mile heats. in the State of Massa-
chusctt> and has never been been beat
by amy horse. His colts are elegant.
some of them lG hands. valued at from
one to six hundred dollars each.
For beauty. bone and activity he i
thought by good Judges to be the most
elegant horse in the State. lie had -
mares last season at the stable of Charles
Eager i'll Bridport.
JOEL DoOlITTLE.
Shoreham. April I, 1926.
The elegant horse Superior is dapple
black, IL - hands, eight years old next
June. said to be by King IIcrod. Will
stand at liineSburgh, Monkton and
Starksboro.
JEDEDIAH REED.
Monkton, May 10, 1926.
GOuNG MEssENGER-The noted horse
\ Dung Messenger, well known by those
acquainted in st. Lawrence Co., y. y.
by the name of the Freeman horse. will
stand at George Pease's in Ferrisburgh.
at Geo. Sherman's Inn, Charlotte and
stable of subscriber. Young Messenger
Is seven years old, of IA beautiful dapple
gray, III hands high; for beauty, speed
and elegance of movement is exceeded by
none. This horse is of Il noted breed;
his grandsire was out of the old imported
horse Messenger; his dam a full-biooded
English mare, his stock is indisputablv
good. Twelve of his colts can be seen at
Wainwright's stable in Middlebury: 81
TO 81.
ABNER SQUIER.
Charlotte, May lS2G.
The following statement of the pedi-
gree of Young Messenger is given by hi,
former owner:
MADRID, 18th April, 1926.
MIR. ABNER SQUIER,
SIR Agreeable to your request of the
10Th inst, wishing me to forward YOU
pedigree of Young Messenger | can say
he was sired by the Messenger owned bv
me whose sire was the old Messenger
purchased on Long Island by Judge Og-
den. old Messenger was sired by the
imp. Messenger. His dam was Katy
Fisher, owned by DR.. Young of Virginia:
this mare had rum nine heats, and as re-
port says. was never beaten. Old Mes
scnger from his stock ranks first in the
estimation of the best judges in the Uni
ted States, and needs no further recon-
incubation. Young Messenger was out
of Mr.. Bass's English mare, which mare
was bred in New Hampshire; her stock
has proved her blood. Young Messen-
ger is seven this spring; his stock are
scattered over this country and in some
parts of Canada, which for size, strength
and activity has not been surpassed eX-
cept by Messenger himself.
JOSEPH FREEMAN.
Young Messenger is advertised by Alb
ner Squier again in 1927, at Charlotte and
Vergennes. Also in 1928, Charlotte,
Vergennes and Middlebury, at Sc.
In 1929 the noted horse Magnum Bo-
mum, F~errisburgh, Charlotte, Hines
burgh, Monkton and Vergennes. Dark
bay 10 IL hands, 100 lbs; sired by the
celebrated horse Magnum Bonum, i'm
---.,l - NJ. n
and has generally been considered by
good judges to be as good a horse for
stock as was ever Imported. His dam was