Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-28
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for the produce.
ANSEL.
One of the most important acquisitions
to the horse stock of this vicinity is the
bay stallion Ansel, lately purchased by
Col ii. S. Russell, proprietor of Home
Farm, Milton, late home of the famous
trotting stallion Smuggler (2:15D and
also of the handsome, speedy Fearnaught
| q :23i), the fastest of the Morrill, family
in his day. Ansel was bred by ex-Gov.
Leland Stanford, proprietor of the world
renowned Palo Alto, where most OF the
famous young record breakers have been
produced. He was foaled in 1880, and
stands sixteen hands high. His sire was
the noted Electioneer. His dam, An
nette, was thoroughbred daughter of
the famous race horse Lexington, by
Boston, he by Timoleon, by Sir Archy,
son of imported Diomed, out of daugh-
ter of Balls Florizel, by imported Do
med. The second dam of Ansel was by
the renowned four-mile racer Gray Eagle,
by Woodpecler, by Bertrand, by Sir
Archy. Gray Eagles dam was Ophelia,
by Wild Medley; second dam by Sir
Archy; third dam, Lady Chesterfield, by
imported Diomed. Ansel's third dam
was by Medoc, by the great four-mile
racer, American Eclipse, son of Duroc
by imported Diomed, and his fourth dam
was Miss Obstinate, by Sumpter, son of
Sir Archy. 1t appears that Annette, the
dam of Ansel, is bred in much the same
lines as Sally Russell, the grandam of
Maud 5. g :0SG. In the peerless catal-
ogue of Senator Stanford's stock for 1888,
compiled by that excellent authority,
Edward A. Upton, secretary of the Ken
lucky Trotting association, it is stated in
note, following his pedigree, that can
sci is bred high, too high to suit those
who want nothing but one trotting cross
piled upon another; yet he is a race
horse, a trotter of level head, extreme
speed, and courage to carry his speed for
a long distance"
Probably no stallion ever brought to
New England has caused more comment
among horsemen in this vicinity than
Ansel. Those who have been educated
to the faith that near cross of trimming
foolshness" ruins an animal, either for
trotting purposes or stock horse, and
have failed to profil by 1.-THE signs of the
times as portrayed by the great record
breakers, Maud S. 2:OsD, Jay-Eye-See
(2:l0) and Sunol (two-year-old, :1S), as
well as such winners in the Grand Cir
cult as Rosalind Wilkes (2:l44), Favonia
(2:15) and j. b. Richardson (2:171),
shake their heads obviously. Progress
i've breeders, like President Whitcomb of
the New England Association of Trotting
Horse Breeders, and w. II. Wilson of
Cynthiana, KY, compliment. the colonel's
sagacity in securing perhaps the very
best son of ElectiOneer. Ansel has
started in few races, all of which he
won with ease, getting a record in third
heat of 2 20. The near thoroughbred eros
SEES in his dam are of the plastic sort
found in such pedigrees as the noted trot-
tiers already mentioned, also in the trot-
tiers Clingtone g :14 ,Clemmie G. G. 'l5t)
Piedmont (2:17D, Catchfy Gasp and
John Morgan (2:24). The latter was the
fastest trotter got by Pilot Jr. His dam
was by Medoc, sire of the third dam OF
Ansel Medoc also got lebanon, sire OF
Telltale, dam of Tattler (2:26), sire OF
Voltaire POD, indianapolis (2:2D, the
} PAGER Gossip (2:lS) and other fast ones
Tattler is proving the most prepotent son
of Pilot Jr This Telltale also brought
the dam of DR.. Herr, sire of Joe Davis
(2:17G, winner of l04 heats in 2 80 OF
better, Lilly c. (2:2lD, Farmer Miles
(pacer, 2:2D, Maggie B. q :22) and La.
) dy Preston (2:30). DIR. Herr was by
} Mambrino Patchen. We congratulate
Col. Russell most heartily upon this pur.
chase. We have not yet learned whether
he is to be used for track or stock purposes
If for the latter, we predict right here
that he will prove one of the most sue.
cessful Hambletonian sres eyer brought
to New England. The trotters of the
Eastern States need just such an infusion
of courage-giving, speed-sustaining for.
ces as he inherits, ,and must be able to
transmit. He is standard by the highest
: rule, the watch, and this is the only
standard that will be of value a few
years hence. The price paid for Ansel
does not concern any one excepting the
purchaser and seller. We hear it stated
as S25, 900, from source which entities
1t to credence.- American Cultiyator.
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