Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-05-09
MORGAN, BLACK HAWK BLOOD.
Morgan Horses as an 0utcross for HambIc-
tonians

The attention of breeders of the
trotter is being directed with great
force to the Morgan horse rs All ex-
cellent outcross for the Hambletonian
The time was when the
Morgan cross was regarded as detri-
mental to speed. Development in the
speed producing lines seem to have
dispelled this idea. F. o.
Stanley of Lewiston, M, declared a
short time since that close observa-
ton both In Maine and outside that
state during the past year or more,
had led him to believe that the Nor
gan strain furnished the best possible
outeross that could be secured for the
Hambletonian stations. Mr.. Stanley
saw Belle Hamlin, 2:1sA, In her race
with Prince Wilkes, at Lexington,
KY, In October and pronounced her
the most beautiful trotter he ever ex-
amlned, and believes her one of the
fastest for brush that was ever Oh |
the course. This mare, whose record
has never been equaled but by one
other trotter of her sex, is an excel
lent specimen of this line Of breeding.
Her sire, Hamlin's Almont, Jr. is by
Almont, out of daughter of Blood's
Black Hawk. Her dam, Toy was by
Hamlin's Patchen, u horse which is
three times closely Inbred to Vermont
Black Hawk through his dam. The
second dam Of Toy was also byrVer-
mont Black Hawk, giving her four
short, direct crosses to that renowned
son Of Sherman Morgan, neither of
which comes through his best son,
Ethan Allen. The dam of Prince
Wilkes, 2:16, one of the crack trotters
Of the past season, one of the fastest
and gamIest on the turf, and the
fastest of Red Wilkes get runs
straight through Brown Chief, Blood
Chief and Blood's Black Hawk to
Vermont Black Hawk. The dam of
Rosaline Wilkes, 2:181a was by Zil-
cadi Golddust, son of Dorsey's Gold
dust, by Vermont Morgan, by Barn
ard, son of Woodbury. Morgan; yet
she is the fastest by far of the get
Of Conn's Harry Wilkes. The dam Of
Whitesocks. the fastest of Alcantara's
get was by Morgan Rather by Stock
bridge Chief, by Vermont Black
Hawk. The chestnut stallion Nc
Leod, which distinguished himself
in the grand circuit, getting a record
Of 2:19H isiby Saturn, son of Satellite,
by Robert Bonner, and out of a daugh-
ter of Vermont Hero, by Hale's Green
Mountain Morgan. The dam of this
Vermont Hero was by Vermont Black
Hawk. G.. E. Clarke's stallion Hal
dane, that won the four-year old stake
at the New England's Breeders
meeting getting a record of 2:261a is
another example of where speed has
come from a Mambrino Russell, by
Woodford Mambrino, 2:211s out OF
the dam of Maud S. 2:0S24. All the
stations which got the aboye-men-
toned trotters undoubtedly received
the patronage OF the very best brew
mares in the Blue Grass region, yet
Haldane, whose dam is Browne, by
Daniel Lambert and out of o daugh-
ter of the Bigelow Horse, by Vermont
Black Hawk, was the first of Mann
brino Russell's to reach the charmed
circle. Many illustrations of the
views above expressed can be found
here in Minnesota. Belle F. 2:154
owned by Aid. Long, of st. Paul like
Belle Hamlin, has a Morgan dam.
Not only Morgan, but inbred Morgan
Her dam, Belle Hastings, was sired
by Magma Charta, son of Morgan
Eagle, dam by Mambrino Chief, 6. d.,
by Meddick's Morgan. Commodore
Kittson's So So, 2;l714 had for her
grand dam the Morgan mare Little
Ida, by Red Jacket, by Comet by
Sherman Morgan. Won Arlim, 2:l911s
also the property of Commodore Kit.
tson, had for his dam the Morgan
mare Mary Short, by Blood's Black
Hawk, by Hill's Black Hawk, by
r Sherman Morgan. Revenue, 2:22I
> an other Of Commodore Kittson's,
!, had for his dam the Morgan mare
: May Morning, 2:sO. by David Lam
} bert, by Ethan Allen, by Hills Black
Hawk, by Sherman Morgan. This
: mare was also inbred, her dam being
} May Queen, by Ethan Allen. Prince
/ Arthur, 5:1s, by Western Fearnaught
} by Young Morrill,, by Old Morrill,, by
!, the Jamison Horse, by Young Bull
Rush Morgan each one of these sires
! having Morgan, blood on both sides.
, Herod, 2:2411S, owned by M. T. Graf
: tan, is strongly inbred descendant OF
Sherman Morgan. The above in
, stances are sufficient to show
, Northern breeders that they had bet.
( ter keep right ON breeding their
choicest mares of Morgan descent to
/ the best Hambletonian and Mambri'
I no Chief stations that can be found.
est. Paul Globe.
=,
The owners of the celebrated stall
lion, might Hawk, )" wish to call the
attention of farmers and breeders 30
the above and to the fact that might
Hawks" breeding shows him to be o
full cousin to Grattan's Herod {2.241S
land closely related by blood to all of
the Black Hawk horses named.
1 PEDIGREE OF NIGHT HAWK.
II Was sired by North Hawk, (record
2.28); he by Sherman Black Hawk;