Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-10-22
SAM HAZARD AND BLUE BULL.
From the Western sportsman.


NEW BURLINGTON, Ohio. Oct. |, 1856.
Ell. Sportsman Some time last month
some one asked through your paper for
the pedigree of Sam Hazard. "l'ramp"
says in his letter to you in No. .. ''old
sam Hazard was by Coppcrbottom." |
think this must be a mistake. Old Sam
Hazard was owned by man named
ClemmOns. near jamestown, Ohio. over
thirty years ago. and was said to be from
Canada. think Mr.. Clemmons is still
living, and if so could tell all about the
horse. Sam Hazard was black. could
pace very fast, and was the sire of very
speedy PAGERS and trotters for those days.
He got the dams of Sleepy Tom. , ~ II,
and Gem, 2:l3 II, both by Tom Rolfe.
In regard to Clinker, | always under
stood he was by Nailor, and he by old
sam. james Lucas, now living at Battle
Creek, Mich, owned NailOr.
And now, MIR. Editor, want to ask
you about old Blue Bull. Some time in
1883 or 1884, saw in your paper where
at the Rush county fair some talk had
been INDUCED in about Blue Bull, and
some one living now at Lexington. KY,
gave his sire as old Sam. a dun horse flax
name and tail, and black stripe down his
back, that came from Ohio, and was said
to be a Hazard. | think he gave the
mans name that brought him As Gilmore,
but | cannot say certain as to this. Now
there was horse answering this descrip-
ton taken from New Burlington. Ohio,
by man named Gilmore to Illinois, where
he was sold and taken to Indiana. but to
what point in Indiana | am not able to
say at present, though | could find out.
This horse was sired by old Sam Hazard.
and owned here by Louis Smith, now liv-
ing in Burlington. Could you tell us
whether the horse called Pruden's Blue
Bull was ever owned in Illinois. and if by
"A man named Elnore?
Hoping have not occupied too much
of your valuable space | will close by
saying the Sportsman is the best horse
paper in the land.
Yours, j. b. ).
We do not know whether Pruden'S
Blue Bull was ever in Illinois or not. We
do know that there was quite Il family of
large. clumSey, slow pacing horses in
Ohio and the eastern part of Indiana
called Blue Bull, and they were almost
invariably dark duns or mouse-colored,
with black stripe down the back and re-
bra marks about the shoulders, fore-arms
and thighs. These markings were char
acteristic of the tribe, and it required
several OutCrOsSes to breed them out.
Pruden's Blue Bull undoubtedly belong
ed to the tribe, but we do not and never
have believed that the great Indiana sire
of trotters and PAGERS, Wilson's Sam Ger
roneOuSly called Blue Bull after his get
had brought him into public notice.. had
a drop of this Blue Bull blood in his
veins. We are not just now prepared
but shall be in the near future. to give
our readers the true history and pedigree
of the Wilson horse. though we now have
enough evidence to convince any man of
reason that he was not sired by Pruden's
Blue Bull or any other member of the
Blue Bull family.
Will our correspondent please ascertain
and report to us at what point in Indiana
the Hazard horse he mentions was sold.
give his marks, size and gait. and state
the year he was taken to Illinois, or
brought to this State.
We shall be very curious TO learn Mr..
Randall's information on this subject but
must say that having inquired upon this
point with good deal of earnestness we
saw nothing to lead us to doubt that
Pruden's Blue Bull was the sire of the
great Blup Rull En- RFGISTFR