Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-18
What the owner of Thomas jefferson
says of Gypsy Queen:

says OF GYPSY queen:
HARTFORD, Conn.,, April 10, 1888.
M. Clarke GYPSY Queen was black
as black could be; a few white hairs in
head and one white hind ankle; Is Is
forward and 10 3-S behind: neither thin
nor thick; the stoutest kind, everything
about her appeared wiry. not bulky or
delicate. Her head was the grandest
ever saw on a mare, as fine nose, wide
and full over the eyes, a great big eye,
blue, fine ear, not long or short, rat
tail, and fair name and foretop but not
any way full; legs the hardest, cleanest
kind, mule feet, perfect; could go bare
foot all the time if required. She run
out in wet pasture a season when she
was sixteen or seventeen years old and
contracted bunions. received her late in
life, and she had trouble in one foot, and
before destroying her | photographed
her and will inclose and you will please
return it. She must have been Black
Hawk and thoroughbred. | can trace
her at four years old in the hands of a
Black Hawk vender; that is all. She
showed a mile in 2 :33 in exercise for her
ten-mile race at Cincinnati. She was a
great mare in character and capacity !;
weight $50 pounds.
Truly yours.
WIN. B. SMITH.
Mr.. Thomson goes on upon this show
ing, as is usual with him in such matters,
to assume that this question is settled
and that Gypsy Queen was the mare pur-
chased by Mr.. Ware and got by the Mar
tin Horse, son of Billy Root, by Sher-
man Morgan. The showing is certainly
quite fair one that this is correct, but
we do not consider it at all as yet proven.
SO far as Mr.. Thomson's judgment goes
he is sometimes, perhaps, like all the rest
of US, entirely wrong. We know that he
is wholly so in his pretended view about
the dam of Ethan Allen. And then his
object being to write salable pieces, that
is, to get money, makes it necessary to
watch him more closely.
a few days since. in an article on the
testimony of Frederick Leland on the
dam OF Ethan Allen, Mr.. Thomson de-
MES his ability,or the ability of anybody
to recognize horse that they had owned
seven years after it had passed from theil
hands. OF course we know this is moi
so, but here Mr.. I. would appear to hold
that a man could recognize horse from q
photograph nearly 80 years after he had
seen him. This we do not think mos
people would care to admit.
The testimony taken as a whole show:
that soon after Mr.. Ware sold his mare
in Chicago a mare of similar description
trotted there, and Mr.. Ware thinks it wa,
the same mare. He thinks so because h,
says that he learned so from Mr.. Doug
that Douglass saw her trot, that he KEEP
track of her and knew her all the time
but Douglass says he didn't. The dies
cription so far as given of these mare
seems to correspond quite closely. bu
their description is perhaps not accurat,
enough from either side. Mr.. Douglass
letter, the most important one probabl,
in this correspondence. Mr.. Thomson
does not give verbatim, at least only il
part, and as we know that Mr.. Thomson
has left out much testimony, some of i
the most important possible, in his re
cent articles on dam of Ethan Allen
Young Traveller Morgan Paddy ant
other horses, which he had but that dit
not correspond to or sustain his theories
we are suspicious that he has done thu
same here.
Well, then, not being sure that Mr.
Thomson has given us all the testimony
that he has, and as what he has given us
with that got before, does not fully prove
the case, and as the other statement re
mains yet INFESTED, or undiscussed, tina
this mare was traced to the hands of
seller at Rochester, n. y, who said tina
she was by a Black Hawk stallion which
he had with him, we shall have to wal
for further evidence before the breeding
of Gypsy Queen, dam of Thomas Jeffer
son, can be given with any certainty.
is important to hear from Mr.. Berhans
or Mr.. Bidwell, or Mr.. Campbell.
In connection we would speak of the
fact so noticeable to those who lool
up pedigrees that with the most notet
horses most always some one, and often
an entirely reputable person, thinks he
knows the animal, and that it is an en-
tirely different one from what has beer
thought. a most worthy citizen Of
Hinesburgh, this State, and practica
horseman of excellent sense, Informed
me that he knew that Flora Temple wa.
bred in Hinesburgh, went to Saratoga
and after into the hands of Mr.. Mann
This gentleman feels certain that the
same mare that he knew was the VERT.
able Flora Temple.
| So. very recently, we had the same
claim made from parties at Whitehall
that Goldsmith Maid was bred there, got
by Smiths Young Columbus. A very
fast mare was bred there and went &c
New Jersey about the time that Gold
smith Maid appeared, and parties who
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