Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-13

grin feet 1ncneS. AT three years old
used him with 81 mares, and at four years
old sold him after he had served so mares.
He took first premium at the Ohio State
fair; Cassus NJ. Clay one of the Judges.
Sykes bought the Eastman Morgan of me
there were two stations got by him in
Manchester not very good. One mare
sold and went to Kentucky John Pet
tibone (who is still alive) owned East
man Morgan. The colt was sold just
before the war; they said he went
like an arrow. Harvey took colt
got by him to Michigan dam bred by
Philo Harvey of Constant in Michigan ;
was a son of Sir Henry by the Gar
ret horse: grandam by Judson's Hamble-
tonian. Sykes kept the Eastman Morgan
until Is years old when he sold him for
$1,000. He covered 119 mares in one season.
He was kept at Marietta, o., where he
was brought from Westfield, n. Y. The
Rudd Horse was great big bay horse.
The second colt | raised by Hales Green
Mountain Morgan. dam by Judson's
Hambletonian. My brother took him to
Virginia, staid there two years, and then
to Grant county. Wis, where after two
years more he sold him for $1,000; bay,
1015 pounds at four years old; ID hands.
One year younger than the Eastman
Morgan; dam bred by James Wheaton
Manchester. Jim Wilson of Dorset
had two colts by the Eastman Morgan.
Spatford Holley, now of Dorset, VT, is a
brother of the Hiram Holley who raised
a colt that went to pittsburgh. Col. Ma
than Stoddard moved to Richland county.
n. Y, and then to Beloit. Wis.
DR.. Warren B. Sargent, Pawlet, Vt,
says that Mr.. Stoddard took a colt that
he raised from the Judson Horse out of a
mare by Chandelier to New York This
was about 1925 that he went to Pulaski,
Oswego Co., n. Y. | was at his house in
Pulaski, the winter of 1S27-S. He took
a mare with him called Dido, a very sharp
running mare. She was by Chanticleer
and her dam | think by Syphax, and she
was the dam of the colt by Judson's
Hambletonian which he took with him.
He raised another called the Bagley
horse; sire, Judson Hambletonian; DAM
Dido. / think he took that to Richland
This Baglev horse resembled the Judson
Horse very much. a little coarser but
about the same size; bay or bay horse
like the Judson Horse. This Bagley
horse came back here and stad quite a
while. Old Chanticleer was kept by an
other Capt. Stoddard of Middletown.
have seen the Gray horse, a pretty fine
styled horse: went West. There was an
other owned by Harvey Baker here, that
went to Richland. n. Y. Mr.. Stoddard
owned Brutus three or four years, per-
haps five; sold him to Mr.. Fitch, who
owned him three or four years when he
died. Stoddard did not, TO my knowl-
edge, have any stations before Brutus.
| almost know that Eastman is right.
that the Andrus Hambletonian was born
about 1881. One of the Stoddard horses
from Dido was stolen Just after the State
fair. Nelson Paul of Wells. VT, former
ly owned Engineer. The dam of Parish
Hambletonian was bought by Mr.. Chase,
| think Ephraim Chase, at Montpelier.
and he sold her to Caleb Parish. She was
not unlike Mr.. Bromley's grey mare
perhaps not quite as thick set. This
Bromley mare referred to, was nearly
white mare after the Morgan pattern and
character, being an excellent driver, but
alittle more thick-set and cOarser than the
Morgans. She was about % hands, and
got by the Freeman Horse of West Rut-
land. This Freeman Horse was bred by
Mr.. Fish of Ira: got by Gen. Sherman,
son of Young Columbus; dam by Black
Hawk; dam of Gen. Sherman by Ethan
Allen. He was bay horse, l6 hands,
that could trot in 2 40. Has been sold
since to New Brunswick, where he is said
to have trotted in :224; formerly owned
by George Freeman of West Rutland.-
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