Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27

in the fall of 1852 or 1858. But he was
living on his farm in Cass township, near
Aberdeen, the same place where he lived
when he was married and where Blue
Bull was foaled. But the record shows
that he did not acquire this farm till Feb.
10, 1853. So that if he got Old Sam in
the fall of either of those years it was
1858.
Next, when did he sell Old Sam and
buy Little Sam? He says the trades
were not SO hours apart, and were in
August, while he was living in Randolph
township, and that he kept Old Sam five
years. But he bought the Randolph
place Oct. Il, 1857, and consequently did
not w it in August of that year. Five
years from 1868 carry us to 1858 and ev-
erything points to August of that year as
the time of these sales.
Next, when was Little sam (Wilson's
Blue Bull) foaled? In his first letter to
us Mr.. Dorrell stated without qualifica-
ton that ''the Wilson horse was foaled
in April, 1866" 1t now appears to be
proven that Mr.. Dorrell bought him in
August, 1858. In that connection he now
says the colt was three years old the
spring before he bought him. This is
proof that Mr.. Dorrell was right in his
first statement and that Blue Bull the
great was foaled in the spring of 1850.
This agrees with what Mr.. Alfred Glenn
has asserted with great positiveness in
the Western Sportsman; that Dorrell
showed Blue Bull at the fairs as a five
year-old in 1850. 1t also shows that Mr..
Stone stated the matter with perfect ac-
curacy, save that he gave the dates by
mistake one year too early, saying that
Blue Bull was foaled in 1854 and sold to
Dorrell in 1857, corroborating Dorrel in
every other point.
1t thus appears that the original Blue
Bull (Merring's) got the Grisley Blue
Bull; that the Grisley Blue Bull got the
Mexican Blue Bull, afterwards known as
Tom, or Tom Blue Bull, bred by Samuel
=, Mexican. then of Butler Co., o., now of
, Mills Shoals. H., and foaled about 1910.
, The dam of Tom was bred by Daniel
Mexican, father of Samuel, and got by
the Louis Harris gray horse, also said to
, have been a Blue Bull. Tom Blue Bull
9 passed into the hands of Solomon Bedin-
ger, Harrison, Ohio, as a yearling, and
> from him and some unknown mare own
ed by Bedinger he bred the horse, Sam,
otherwise called Old Sam or Pruden's
e Blue Bull, which was foaled about 1S4l
and passed into the hands of Michael Lit.
T. tie, an Irish hired man of ~Bedinger's,
who, in 1871, took him to Indiana and KEEP
= him in Sparta and vicinity till he dispos.
ed of him to James ID. English. through
whose hands he soon passed to Hon
Chas. r. Faulkner. Little took care o.
n him for Faulkner and stood him as APP
e pears in the above statement till about
It 1853, when the horse passed from Faulk
g ner through the hands of English ant
II one Charles Giffin to Daniel Dorrell o.
$ Rising sun, Ind. who got him in the fal
of that year. Dorrell kept him for ser
vice, and in the spring of 1854 Elijal
e Stone of Stones Crossing, johnson coun
t ty, Ind, bred TO him his mare above de
e scribed, that was bred by Stone himsel
IS and got the Young Selim the result wa
d the famous Little Sam, foaled in April
l. 1876, and now known as Wilson's Blue
Bull. one of the greatest trotting sire
e the world has ever known. Dorrell KEEP
Old sam until August, 1858, when h,
d sold him and bought Little SAN.
1t appears by evidence already pub
lished by us that Old sam, after Mr.. Dor
3 rell owned him, was owned by Geo. r
Loder. Petersburgh, Ky. ;. T. Webster
ElrOd, Ripley Co., Ind: John milford
d Cold Spring, Ind. and a Mr.. Lawton o
" Elizabethtown, of whom he was purch
/, ased by a son of James X. Pruden. MI
lie Pruden sold him for SG5, after which h
l. was sold to Cincinnati, and there died a
an advanced age.
No careful reader of this article cal
fail to perceive that the pedigree of vii
sons Blue Bull in the male line for tiv
| generations is pretty clearly established
1t has cost great labor, long travel an,
considerable expense. This is the usua
experience in tracing far back a line o
lie horses undistinguished by turf perform
N ances and therefore leaving no publishe
lie or written evidence behind them. Blu
ar there is no great mystery about the ped
gree after all. 1t may have SCENE
strange that such a horse as Merring'
Blue Bull could produce a grand-so
Of equal to the brilliant achievements in tn
trotting stud that illuminate the caree
~ of Wilson's Blue Bull. But when it
q shown that Wilson's Blue Bull, instea
as of being a grandson, was a g%reat-great
IN grandson of the Merring horse-that il
t. stead of carrying one-fourth, he carrie
o. only a sixteenth, as far as shown, of tn
as Merring horses blood, with the othe