Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-10

self from Mrs. Fairchld Address in
care of j. +. Fairchld. 20 Bond street.
New York city.
From the above it appears certain that
loot, the dam of Alright, was foaled
considerably earlier than the date men
toned by Mr.. Baxter, who NAV have
had an indistinct recollection of the fact
that one of this pair of mares was bred
to llambletonian. and have become i'm
pressed with the idea contained in his
statement that the pair was sent to Rvs
dyk's llambletonian. Following up the
!clew, Mr.. Redfield soon obtained the fol-
lowing:
| can give you the pedigree of loot
but the voucher | have DESTROYED with
other papers, not expecting farther use
Tor it, Her CToots) mother was full
Black Hawk and Morgan mare foaled
and bred in Vermont. Her owners
name, from whom bought her, do not
recollect. She was black. glossy. fine
action, step and style, and as fast as
cared to drive. Toot's sire was the Cali
fornia stallion Gray Eagle, considered a
very superior horse and of excellent
pedigree. loot was fOaled and bred
(raiSed) in Orange county. y. Y. by a
gentleman now dead, and in her young
days had the best and tenderest care un-
der my own orders. Hoping this may
meet your requirements. | am. very re-
spectiully,
Mis-. +. ID. FAIRCHILD.
March 0, 1881.
The above was written some twenty
three years after loot was bred. and it is
not surprising that the writer COMPOUNDED
the sire of loot, which was gray, with
the California stallion Garibaldi, owned
few years later by the same gentleman,
F. ;. Stevens. Swansea, Mass. An in
quiry from Mr.. Redfield to Mr.. Stevens
brought the following reply, dated Swan
sea, March 30, 1884,
Yours of the Goth received. The gray
stallion you speak of was sired bv the
Morse Horse; his dam | know nothing
about. The Mrs. Fairchild team | knew
very well, but nothing as to their pedi-
gree. | know one of them was bred to
the gray stallion about the time men
toned in yours, but have no record of
it, as kept him for a road horse.
Mrs. Fairchild does not mention the
name of the owner of the stallion which
got loot, but from the above there can
be no question but that it was horse
owned by F. ;. Stevens in 1861, the wear
previous to the foalirg of loot. Mrs.
Fairchild is not living, but a recent cores
pondence with her son, j. f. Fairchild.
now doing business in New York city.
has resulted i'll gaining facts which not
only confirm the statements of Mrs. Fair
child and Kerr, but show beyond doubt
that loot, Allrights dam. was by the
horse owned by Mr.. Stevens in lSGl. The
following is an extract from a letter dat
ed at New York city, Sept. 10. lSS6:
EDITOR CULTIvATOR:
Dear Sir Il wrote you some time
since of my intended visit to Mount Eve.
and As spent last sunday there made the
inquiries you requested. do not know
that | can help you much as OF the
sire of loot, but | can at least con
vince you that she was not Handle
tonian. and think know how the misap.
prehen>ion occurred. My mother bought
somewhere about 1858 or 1853. a pair OF
black mares from Boston dealer who
represented them to her as being fresh
from the country, and pure Black Hawk
Morgan stock, of which there can proba-
bly, be no doubt. The name of the deal
er do not know. In lSGl. Nellie, the
younger of the mares, was taken to
Swansea, Mass, and bred to a stallion
that was at Mr.. Frank Stevens's place,
whether owned by him or not do not
know, but he could probably tell that if
the circumstances and names of our fam
lily were recalled. In the spring of 1862
the mares were taken to Mount Eve. Or
ange Co., y. Y, and We're on the farm of
my cousin, Col. :. p. Kerr, and on the
24th of June, 1862, loot was foaled. 1t
was while the mares were at the farm
that the other mare, Fannie, was bred to
a son of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, and
foaled a stallion, which we named Don
Juan. He and loot were both broken at
the farm, and before loot was taken to
Somerset she was bred twice to Don .Ju-
an, and each time brought Il tilly. Both
of these fillieS were taken by Miles Roe
of Monroe, Orange county, n. Y, and
do not know what became of them. loot
was taken to Somerset and sold to Mr..
Gomez. You can easily see how taking
lOOt Tor HamDletOnlan must have Oc-
CURED, as one mare was bred TO a
stallion in Swansea, and the other to the
Hambletonian Horse in Orange county.
The following letter settles the point
definitely as to what horse got loot, the
dam of Alright, and while it does not
establish the breeding of Toot's sire, there
is no reason to doubt that he was got by
the Morse Horse, son of European. The
latter was also known rs the McNitt
Horse:
SWANSEA, sept. l3, 1856.
MIR. :. w. PARLIN:
Ny Dear Sri have been absent, or
yours of the 18th would have been am
swered sooner. Ina 1851 or 1862 pur-
chased from the widow of Otis II. kclton
a gray stallion, which was quite old n
that time. He was not known by any
particular name. kept him nearly two