Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-10
AS 10 Mr.. THOMSON.

We notice Mr.. A. w. Thomson of
Woodstock has commenced an article, or
series of articles, in the Manchester Mir
ror and Farmer, on Morgan Horses.
His first, we believe, was on Peters
Vermont, which he thinks was got by a
son of Green Mountain Morgan instead of
Clifford. As Mr.. Il. gives the breeder.
which had not previously been given, he
is probably correct.
He begins his article this week by
stating that in his opinion the Morgans
were not fast. He offers for proof of
this the fact that some of the daughters
of Hale's Green Mountain Morgan were
bred to their sire and the produce did not
gives; we suppose it was sufficient for
him.
Mr.. L. then takes up the subject of
Flying Morgan, and has quite an article.
He thinks his dams pedigree has been
given wrong. AS there has never been
any breeder given he is probably correct
in this. Mr.. Thomson has gone back for her
on the old formula of a Messenger mare.
AS Mr.. T. does not give the breeder, there
is probably no truth to this. In all such
cases the chances are very largely against
the guess being right. Mr.. T. says a
mare, which he describes as about ii
hands, 900 lbs, was traded by pedlar
named Allen in Granville, VT, to another
man named Allen, and that the pedlar
said he traded for this mare at Poultney,
or near there, and that she was by some
famous Messenger horse. The pedlar
called her II years old; this was in 1912.
Afterwards a mare was sold at Bristol,
VT, at auction, in 1913, Tor Sl0.50, be-
longing to another Allen, and Mr.. Il. SAYS
it was the same mare traded by the ped
lar, but gives no proof. This last mare
was in foal and was bought by r. NJ.
Adams, and the foal was Flying Morgan.
Mr.. Thomson says that Bishops Ham
bletonlan stood at Poultney in 1925, and
that this mares back ran straight out to
her tail like the Bishop Hambetonian
stock, and so he now states without quail
itication that the mare was 16 in 1912.
and sired in 1925. Whether he is aware
of the exhibition he makes of himself in
this sort of misstatement we do not
know; he doesn't discuss that but states
that he sent picture of Wither's Ethan
Allen to Mr.. Livermore, one of the men
who had the pedlar's mare, and he said
it resembled the mare, so much so that
he hated to return it. We couldn't help
but contrast the memory of Mr.. Liver
more with that of the man in Maine
whose memory was so bad that he
couldn't recollect his own nephew when
he came to borrow money of him.
Mr.. Thomson says that in 1915 Mr..
Adams buys the Franklin House at
Burlington, but leaves the colt on his
farm at Bristol. Mr.. John Daniels has
charge of Mr.. Adams farm and agrees
to keep the colt certain length of time
for half interest; that in the spring
of lS4S Mr.. Daniels sold the colt to DR..
Russell for $l25, turning in doctors
bill in part payment. 1t does not appear
here why Mr.. Daniels sold the whole
colt, when he only owned half of him.
We speak of this because Mr.. Harvey
Yale says he bought half of this colt
with DIR. Russell and kept him for mares
the season of ls4s, covering about 40 at
So to warrant.
Mr.. Thomson gives the different state
ments of the different parties, including
Mr.. Yale, as to where the horse was in
1913, and shows that he doesn't know
anything about it. He concludes his arti-
Gle with anraccount of the race between
Flying Morgan and the Black Hawk mare
Cleopatra at Vermont State Fair at Mid
dlebury, 1851.