Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-29

dam of TiconderOga was bought by Mr..
Breed in Vermont and was said to be a
Morgan. The Coburn Horse was foaled
at least fifty-five years ago. He does not
remember its sire, but thinks that his
brother Foster, fourteen years older than
himself, will. He also bred Crown
Point, black stallion, 1913, 1000 lbs,
foaled 1916; sire, Black Hawk; dam from
Vermont; and sold him when twelve or
thirteen years old to a Mr.. jerks of st.
Clair, Mich, for $1,000. He died two or
three years afterward. The Taft Horse
was a bay stallion, strip in face, and
some white feet 16 hands, 100 lbs. Jul
ba Howe of Crown Point raised and sold
three stations from old Black Hawk.
The fair grounds were mile north of
Crown Point village,in a most out-of-the-
way-place, that but few people had
found out about. AS but few people
were expected, the ordinary price of adj
mission was doubled. There was very
little to see by way of show except
several people driving around where
there had once been race track. But
we met number of very genial gentle
men, among them, Gen. John Hammond
of Crown Point. Gen. Hammond refer
red to Engineer, a beautiful dark chest
nut,at least 16 hands, that stood for some
time in Schroon; brought there from III,
by Daniel Weatherhead of Schroon. 1t
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His stock was uniformly excellent. Mr.
Hammond thought him one of the finest
horses he had ever seen, and said that
Col. Russell,.s cut of Fearnaught remind
ed him of Engineer.
Mr.. Byron Murray of Addison had a
stallion called Sir John that was sired by
Cock of the Rock.
Mr.. Wyman of Crown Point says that
a horse called Old Diomed was owned in
Schroon forty years ago and that he was
then thirty-two years old. He thinks
that Mr.. Weatherhead brought Engineer
to Schroon tifty-five years ago.
On our return we called on Mr.. Foster
Breed. The old gentleman, now eighty,
was confined to his bed. but showed
much enthusiasm in speaking of old
times. He remembered well the stallion
colt that his father raised and sold to Mr..
Coburn, known afterwards as the Coburn
Horse: says that this colt was sired by
Post Boy; that he himself took the mare
to the horse while he was kept at Brid-
III
bay mare, about 900 to 1000 lbs; he did
not know her blood. The Breed Horse.
by Black Hawk, was bred and owned I'M
til sixteen years old by him, and was also
from a dam by Post Boy. From this
horse Mr.. Breed raised quite number of
stations which he sold. One went to
Westport, n. Y; one to Watertown. n.
Y, and one to New Jersey. These were
all black. The one that went to West
port was sold to Hon. Samuel Root. The
New Jersey one was sold to Mr.. Polhe-
mus; this one would weigh 100 lbs.
We are glad to learn the true breeding
of the dam of Ticonderoga-she being
one of the many dams of Black Hawk
stations recorded in Wallace as by Young
HambletOnian. Instead of IIambleton-
ian, there is "A strain of Domed, which
appears to be a strain of great elegance
as well as of staying power and of speed ;
and almost certainly another of Morgan.
1t was dark when we returned to III.
After tea we saw Mr. VIM. Arthur. OF
his own accord he said, as we sat down
MY brother gave you the name of Ger
shOm Densmore as the man who brought
into Hague the dam of Ethan Allen. lie
should have said Bevens. 1t was Mr..
Bevens. | couldn't tell when you were
here. He said Densmore, but it was
Bevens.' In moment our story was on
its feet again. Mr.. Arthur's story, as re-
told, was: "Warner Cook bought the
mare of Abel Rising. He bought Abel
out for $l000-all his stuff. think Ris-
ing got her of VIM. Bevens. got the in
formation of Bevens. He said he got
the dam where he came from in Massa-
chusetts. This mare was bred in Hague
unless Bevens lied about it; and | don't
think he did, for he was a straight-for-
ward man. had heard that he had bred
the mare, and asked him, and he said
he did. Rising did not get his $1,000
without trouble. Warner Cook failed
and William II. took judgment against
him, from which Rising offered to redeem
the property and made IA tender for that
purpose; but the Cooks settled with him
rather than let him have the property"
Concerning Engineer Mr., Arthur said
ga man by name of Weatherhead had him
in West Moriah in 1886 and 7. He was
raised up in Warrensburgh. They said
he was 20 years old when they had him
up here. took mare 20 years old to
him and they said he was the same age.
was born in 1922. | took this mare to
him in 1886 or Z. lie was then standing
ut Irou-,, Doint Enninaor xVop a haul