Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-29
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PEDIGREE HUNTlNC:
THE WRATH OF THE OLD GRAY
MARE
BEING A TRUE HISTORY OF THE DAM OF
ETHAN ALLEN.

ETHAN ALLEN.
The Wrath of the old Gray Mare. On
every side we see it fitting; it started
with us in the mare we drove; it has met
us continually on our way; yon little
colt, whose step is so light and whose form
is so perfect, comes from the old gray
mare; again and again have these colts
crossed our path, every one with that
faultless form and action is Wrath of
the old gray mare; you cannot mistake
them; there are no others in the world
like them; strength, elegance and beauty
combined: and swift as the winds that
sport among their native hills. This
country where she toiled is filled now
likewise, some are grazing in the fields,
many are fitting for the race-course,
more are masters of the road but which
ever way we turn. wherever we 90, ap-
pears the Wrath of the old gray mare.
Charles q. Wicker, one of the influen-
tial farmers and intelligent breeders of
Ii, gave us pedigree of Flying Cloud, bl.
h.. one white fore foot, - - hands. by
Black Hawk, dam the Ketchum mare by
Magnam Bonum. MY father, Charles
Wicker, bot the dam of Oliver Beckwith,
Orwell. She was Il black mare, 10 hands
and very powerful. Flying Cloud was
sold when four or five years old, for
$1,000 to Schuyler Doane and Charles
Hunsden, Shoreham, VT, and they sold
him to 90 to Ohio. He was IA splendid
horse, and trotter. He could beat Sher-
man Black Hawk"
Gustavus Wicker, brother of Charles,
also substantial farmer and breeder,
saws: "The dam of Ethan was quite a
trottcr The Risings got her over
amongst the Green Mountains. | think
Zeno Rising got her there. had little
French mare that could trot in three min
utes. could just beat old Warner Cook
with this mare. After Cook got her she
got sprain. rode my mare against
Warner Cook coming home from camp
meeting. bought my mare not over
two years after | came here. am now
50 years old came here from Orwell in
1885: owned this mare about three years
this race was about 1899. William IL.
Cook got her the same fall. think VIM.
II. Cook raised three colts from her: he
raised bay horse, a bay mare and Il gray
one. | guess he raised four or five. IIol-
comb raised four from her. When trot-
ted with her she had never had a colt.
don't think Warner Cook had had her more
than two or three months. Warner Cool,
told me he got her of Rising-Zeno Ris-
ing. think. Xeno Rising told me he got
her over the Green Mountain. This was
before Ethan was bred. He said ocer the
! mountain
Mr.. Wicker says the man who
l bred Black Warrior. owned by Geo
Adams, lived at Whitehall, and re-
fers to Byron Woodland. The dam of the
9 FELTON, Horse (Ticonderoga} was by the
/. Coburn Horse of Crown Point. Il
bought this dam when FELTON, Horse wa.
three or four years old. She was II
years old. foaled in 1898. She was bret
by Benz. Breed of Crown Point and from
IA mare brought from over the mountains
She was black mare. 100 lbs. Is J.:
- hands. The Coburn Horse was brown
f 10 hands high,a smart little horse. was
G probably - or 10 years old when frs
i saw Coburn ride him and the horse wa'
i seven or eight or eight years old at tina
time-a cordy, smart horse. Whitehall
was bred by Otis Hamilton of Fair Hay
en-. He was a son of North American.
t do not know his dam. think he wa'
called American first. The Bullocl
= Horse was a big chestnut horse that cam'
from Canada to Isle La Motto. where my
uncle, Benager Wicker. bought him ant
sold to Bullock of Fair Haven, abou
1870 He was said to be by IA Sir Walter
horse. \ Sir Walter horse was owned 10y
Enoch Smith of sudbury. took a mare
To him about 1888. lie was nice chest
nut horse, about 1913; would weigh lion
o lbs, and a little finer than the Bullocl
c Horse. The Bullock Horse was lG-l
: long. round barrel and long neck. liz
y was quite trotter, but Black llawl
!. could jump by HIM"
k AFRO NJ. Bailey of IT,, u gentleman o
= 20 years, says:
!, George Johnson brought the littl'
: gray mare here. | worked for VIM. II
l Cook in 1871, think; worked there par
d of one winter Warner Cook then owneC
the mare. johnson got her, guess, ovel
!, the lake. Afterwards she fell into thu
hands of W. ii. Cook. The old gentle
man got involved in debt, and his proper
ty went into his sons hands in 1912 or 3
When was there in 1871 she had tire,
bay colts-I guess it was before wen
a there-all from the Burge Horse, bred by
a Mr.. DelanO, and a son of Sir Charles.