Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-10-01

which we did not suppose they had at
tanned. We did not even know that
Massachusetts was greatly distinguished
as a horse-breeding State. We had sup
posed that Maine derived her chief glory
in that respect from the two great sires,
Gen. Knox and Winthrop Morrill,, both
old-fashioned Morgans, bred in Vermont.
We had been led to believe that whatever
small measure of fame our "sister State"
of New Hampshire was entitled to as
producer of fine horses was mostly due
to the od-fashioned Morgan blood, illus
trated in the olden time by such names
as Revenge, Sherman Morgan, Flint Nor
gan, Napoleon and the Willoughby Col
| by horse. and more recently by Tag
CARTS Abdallah, Gen. Lyon and Col.
Cross. The fact that one Vermont Nor
gan stallion, yet living and doing service
here, has sired more two-thirty trotters
than all the Hambletonian stations of
New England, living and dead, have pro-
duced, all told, we had thought would
be reckoned in our favor; and though
a. &c. has kindly pointed out our error,
we shall not he entirely clear upon this
point until he has still further come to
our relief with facts and figures; and,
until that time, there are people unchar-
table enough to assume that, as COM
pared with his merits as horse critic,
\. f. c. is better fitted for the position
of "a rusher-in where angels fear to
tread"
The preiudces of these deluded people
would be confirmed rather than shaken
by reading the reports of the recent
speed contests in Vermont and Maine.
eve never hear of any trotting in New
Hampshire). At the Maine State Fair,
neither of the four races seems to have
been won by the get of any of the Maine
Hambletonians, while both the winners
on the first day were by sons of the 'old-
fashioned" Gen. Knox. At our own
State fair there were eight races, three of
which were won by Morgans. three by
Hambletonians, one by a grandson of
WOODBURY. Pilot and one by grandson
of Mambrino Patchen. At the recent
Rutland meeting of the Vermont Associ-
alton of Road and Trotting Horse Breed
ers there were six contested trotting
races, five of which were won by Nor
gans and the other by Pclwick, grand
son of Woodburn Pilot. In the two.
three and four-year-old classes the entire
money. divided into three parts i'm each
case, was taken by MOrgans without eX-
ceptiOn. and in the tive-year-old class
first money was taken by Morgan. and
second and third by daughters of Kent
by Hambletonian; but these were both
from Morgan dams. and Kent himself
was out OF Lady Griswod by FLYING
Morgan. The , 40 stallion race is thus
described by Mr. ;. W. Parlin of the
American Cultivator. whose means of
knowledge and capacity for Judging the
relative merits of the different equine
families are second to those of no New
England horSeman, unless we except the
sagaciOus \. +. c.:
| Several other sons of Daniel Lambert
were upon the grounds at Rutland among
which was the handsome, stylish, nine
year-old bay stallion Thought, that adj
ded another to the many laurels of his
renowned sire by winning the holly con-
tested 2.4O stallion race, beating such
royalty bred trotters as the ten-year-old
llambletOnian stallion Gilroy, bv Mes
senger Duroc, first dam by Sayre's Harry
| Clay, second dam by Prince Duroc: also
the speedy MambrinO Archy, an excel
lent representative of the Mambrino
Chief family, being by Mambrino Boy
| (2.26 l-2), dam by John billiard. sire of
the dam of Phil Thompson (2.l6 la and
other fast ones. Mambrino Boy was bv
Mambrino Patchen. from Rowing Nellie,
| by Strader's Cassius NJ. Clay Jr. The
dam of Rowing Nellie was by Berthune.
son of Sid llamet, by Sir Archy her gran
dam being by another son of Sir Archy
known as Rather. 1t would doubtless
seem like folly to many to pit this elegant
Morgan against such excellent represen-
tatives of the greatest trotting families
that have ever been produced, but Mr..
Joseph Battell. the owner of Thought.
had the courage to take the risk, and en-
joyed the satisfaction of seeing his pet Sc
cure IlrSt HOnOfs III one OF the most earn
est seven-heat contests that has occurred
in the Green Mountain State for many a
day.
SO it appears that, on some occasions to
! say the least, the representatives of 1.-THE
noble families Of today" fail to get to the
wire ahead of the Representatives of the
past" Perhaps A. f. c. will explain
this when he comes to clear up the other
little matters we have suggested. But it
is curious to note how differently YER
mont horses look to the eye of Mr.. Par
lin and to that of the deep and discrimin-
ating a. +. c. Let us quote again from
Mr.. Parlin's report of the Rutland meet
ing.
The suggestion that eminent individu-
ais, as rule, are more highly esteemed
by strangers than by those who are ia
miliar with their daily habits, NAV be
true of certain members of the human
family, but is certainly not true of the
Morgan tribe of horses, if the late exhibit