Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-10

and of medium length, his whole form
smooth, but not very muscular. and his
every movement was easy. graceful,
beautiful. Since then great progress has
been made in breeding both form and
speed, but have never seen a 2-year-old
horse that was so maiestically beautiful
as he then seemed to me. and certainly
never one that was so perfect in three
gaits. Irwin showed him at all the fairs
the country round, the people never tired
of seeing him perform and this was the
rock on which he split. Encouraged,
flattered and excited by their plaudits he
over-worked him and let him cool too
suddenly when exhausted. He took
cold. had a severe attack of pink-eye and
lost his sight. But blind, he was still
par eXcellence-the Tuckahoe of Tucka-
hoes. He was popular as a stock horse;
his colts nearly all being good size,
good looking and double gated. were
highly priced as saddle horses, and
there in a region noted for good saddlers
they were among the best. Irwin sold
him when he was 10 or II years old, and
a 4-year-old filly by him to John y.
Dixon, then of Columbiana county, Ohio.
for 81 200 for the two. \ few wears
later Dixon moved to keokuk county,
Iowa, and sold the old horse at public
, sale for $500; the tilly, then a mature
mare, he brought to this State and sold
her to Tinsley. the former owner of old
: FlaXtail. and she it is whose name Fanny
: Fern appears in DR.. NJ. W. Hicks pedi-
grees of Buccanier, Flight, etc, in Cali
fornia.
Many of the colts of Twins Tuckahoe
in West Virginia and eastern Ohio could
. both trot and pace in three minutes,
notable among them being the dam of
q SCOTS lIatoga.
2 Mr. Wallace's letter asks me for the
: pedigree and history of Bertrand Black
, Hawk, the sire of Frank Fisk, trotter,
| and the California PAGER Maud b. lie says
4 her owners claim that she is now the
: champion PAGER of the Pacific slope
g having not only phenomenal speed. but
her present record, 20 is no measure OF
her speed. We bred Bertrand Black
Hawk in Ohio and brought him to Iowa
when 3 years old, kept him until he wa,
6 years old and sold him in Omaha tC
= Rathbone. who took him to California
He is by Champlain. three-quarter breC
i son of Hills Black Hawk. his dam being
a full sister to Lady Litchteld Bert
rand's Black Hawks dam was Bell,
Burns. by Champion Black Hawk. ant
her dam was Nellie bremen. by Buck
thoroughbred son of Bertrand. and hel
dam by llerod Tuckahoe. bough
Il Nellie bremen when she was old. W,
u raised Belle Burns and brought her t.
II Iowa. She was called Old Belle whcl
she came here. but lived until she wa,
in her Goth year. and died two year
e since. She was double gated and hat
more than ordinary speed in all gaitS
= but was never trained. Nellie Drenncl
was a pure square trottcr without any
= inclination to pace. She had eight foals
'ruckahoc: these two inbred full brother
were both PAGERS and both fast Boil
var. the older one. got Il pacing record o
= , - on IA very poor slow third OF Il mill
track and Reeds Tuckahoe. die Young
Il er one. a record OF :33. Both with tn,
same care and skill in handling anC
u under all the same circumsta haV,
' no doubt would have paced as fast as tn,
best pacing records of to-day. tn,
T. reader will notice that they were hal
:, brothers of Belle Burns, who was ais
u double gated but her son. Bertran,
" Black Hawk. the sire of the great Calfor
; mia PAGER, is square trotter without tn
slightest inclination to pace. Now W
- will make a summary and see how i
:, fits Wallace's theory of the oneness. in
u terchangeableness, intertransmittable
y, ness, etc., of the two great gaits, pacin!
u and trotting.
= Twins Tuckahoe was a fast PAGER. Hi
:, half-sister, Nellie Bremen. had no in
/ clination to pace their produce. BOLIVIA
u and Reeds Tuckahoe. were both fas
: PAGERS. Nellie Drennen's daughter
i Belle Burns, by horse belonging to
e trotting family and himself a trotter wa
v double gated. Her son Bertrand Blacl
e Hawk, by an inbred Black Hawk sire
e and neither of them with any inclination
: to pace begets the PAGER Maud b. have
II not seen pedigree of the dam of Mau,
: b. but if she belongs to a pacing family
!, it does not weaken Walace:s theory il
q the least. "a applied to the above sum
: mary of facts: it would simply show
: that the pacing gait was intensified il
+ accordance with a well-known and es
: tablished law of heredity.
II JAS. ID. LADD.
; THE FEARNAUGHTS.
. The FearnauOhts are doing some CRANE