Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-26
OLD HORSE ADVERTISEMENTS.

Our last Datcn or morse advertisements
were from Spooner's Vermont Journal,
published at Windsor, and included those
which appeared up to and including the
year 1874. In 1895 we have in the same
paper:
The elegant English hunting horse
Rockingham. "A beautiful bay. full l6
hands high, moves well. carries lofty and
gay and is six years old this spring. His
sire was old Rockingham, imported from
England by Col. Taylor of Amboy in
l7SG. His dam got by the imp. horse
Bay Richmond out of Person Nevling's
English mare Flora.
ROSWELL OLCUTT.
Norwich. 9th April, 1885.
The ''beautiful horse" Fosbury is adj
vcrti>ed to stand in Woodstock at 81 to
ST." "Fosbury is lately from Virginia is
now five years Old. His sire was old
Cub, imported from England. His grand
sire was old Belgrade, one of the most
noted hunters in the north of England.
His color is beautiful bay: his height
is Ii hands two inches; his body and
limbs are well made. completely joined
and proportional. His goings are ele-
giant and easy; he is swift in the race"
The beautiful horse Young Ranger.
handsome, gay, young, well built, strong.
and proves very sure of the likclieSt colts
where he has covered in MiddlctOwn in
Connecticut and in this country. lie is
of the noted Hartford horse breed and
stood last season in Thetford and New
bury. JOHN MASON, JR,
Oxford, April 20, 1875.
"That beautiful and noted horse Young
Greyhound" is advertised by Thomas
Ellis. Jr., to stand in Woodstock at tC
II shllings.
The Rainbow is advertised to stand in
Thetford at 10 to 30 shillings.
The Rainbow is a full-blooded red roar
horse, full - hands high; carries loftily
and moves beautifully, and is five year,
old this spring. He was sired by thai
beautiful Selim formerly owned by 10
siah Bond of Conway.
ADONIRAM SMALLEY.
Thetford, April II, 1895.
The beautiful horse Macaroni' is adj
vertised to stand in Royalton at 81 to So
Fifteen hands and One-half high; is
beautiful leopard is lofty, beautiful
moving horse; was sired by Old Range
or Moravian horse, whose colts were 81
well known in Connecticut. TILE,
PARKIURsT."
"The beautiful horse Young Ranger,
beautiful gray" is advertised by. Pete
Edison of Randolph.
John 5. Willard announces that ''th
famous horse known by the name o
Miltimore" will stand in Hartland.
THAT elegant, nervous, full-bloode,
horse Hyder Ali, the property of Col
: Porter" is advertised to stand in New
bury at 81 to So "rhe Hyder Ali is
blood bay, nine years old; about
hands high; well proportioned. Fo
beauty, spirits, strength or speed he i
not surpassed by any horse in New Eng
r land. He was bred by John Phillips
Esq, in New Jersey, and sired by tn
noted full-bloOded horse Liberty bred b
. Thomas Grant, Esq, of Maryland. Lib
| erty's dam was Milley, the dam of Ere
. Briton; beautiful thoroughbred mar
originally sprung from the Flying Chi
r ders in England and got by the famou
r imported horse Dove. The Hyder ALI
e dam was Dido, bred by John Schencl
Esq, of New Jersey. She was sired b
[ the fnll-blooded horse Arabian, got b
t old Wildair, imported from and after
1 wards returned to England. Ddo's daI
-, was Juniper, out of Primrose, her graz
! dam Othello, her great-grandam by Gel
e Ogles Barb.