Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-02

New York.
bought gray mare of a stranger be-
tween here and Castleton about 40 years
ago-a nce-looking mare, 1900 lbs. l
traded with farmer who lived on
the Castleton road in the west part of
Rutland he called her Messenger mare.
She was then five years old think he
said he had her of his father; do not re-
member his name. My brother raised
three studs from her by the Churchill
Horse. Two of them-one bay, the 9th
er a black-Furman had.
Bennum and his brother owned Comet
one year and kept him where l boarded.
| used to ride him. He was sold the next
year at auction at Rutland. He was said
to be the first colt that Bishops Handle
tonian got after he came to Cambridge.
He was great trotter. l could out-trot
anything | saw that season. He was
here at Pittsford in 1882. He was bay
horse, about Is hands, good, square-built
horse, fair 1000 lbs.; wasn't very gay
horse, not built up very well forward,
fiat on the withers, thick heavy neck. but
pretty good long neck, pretty heavy head,
not coarse head but thick, though not
very long; ears pretty well apart; did not
look as well as geldings have seen of that
breed a good, fair-shaped horse, not very
fine or very coarse; forward legs pretty
we'll apart. He covered but one mare
+ that season. Bennum's brother died
young. He was studying law the other
: one was a mechanic, went to Northern
y New York and died; they lived formerly
/ at West Rutland. The Old Magnnm b.
0 mum died the winter after 1 was p; he
= got about 200 colts here. The Long
q Horses colts were not as good as his.
:, Mr.. Maxam Sherman, 7s years old, says
. . that he came to Sherburne the spring of
V 1884. He knew the Lelands that came
IS from Springfield; they were at Sherburne
when he came; thinks they came year
or two before.
: Mr.. Danl Avery of Pittsfield, VT, 81
years old, says that he saw the original
Il Morgan horse, he thinks at Randolph
'e when he was about II or Is years old
He was mahogany bay little bearing
y towards the brown a low horse, not more
Is than l44 hands. The dam of Greer
SC Mountain Morgan was a dark-coloret
III mare, rather rangey of the two, owned
'r by Dan'l Gay.
+ There were two horses at Rutland,
IL bay and grav-kept at Rutland two sea
y sons, that belonged to Van RantZ, whit
lie was there himself with them. | thinl
Or Van Rantz called one Messenger.
81 was about % at the time. The gray hors
lt was the most slender and leggy of tn
ne two. Dave Long had Magnum Bonum a
s. Rutland-a good-looking horse.
- Mr.. Ranney of Pittsfield, VT, says tina
u. he saw three Morgan horses at Roches
- ter, VT, SO years ago-Woodbury, Blu
~ rush and Clifford; thought them terribl
-, nice patterns of horses, but the Wood
~, N bury seemed preferably to him of tn
ie others.
.e' Fifty-eight years ago gray Morga
it' horse from Barnard stood at his father
n in Stockbridge, tended by Topliff & Wins
re low. 1t was a small horse, not over SO
wv lbs, and very cross, but left some yer
os nice stock.
Ill Mr.. Blossom of Pittsfield had ba
OF Duroc horse, $50 lbs, that was quit
'ft handsome. This was about 80 years ag'
=" Seth Warren had dark bay stallion hel
n 900 to $50 lbs, 10 hands, that was gOtte
:" by the Churchill Horse. Warren raise
- him from gray mare that Tasting
;" bought; sold him and he went Yves
=. This horse was here number of years
T., was good stopper and left good stool
nc Warren is still alive.
80 Ransom Durgee of Pittsfeld woul
nc know about the Duroc horse which job
~ Brown brought here 80 years ago.
-. think it was an old horse at that time.
ter Mr.. Mussey of Rochester says that II
mr. Bowen Horse, by Green Mountain Mo
gan, was owned by Austin Leonard {
Nd Rochester about 20 years ago, who bougl
10. him Of Vassal Hubbard; was raised
,n Bethel. He was about ISL, HOO lbs
or blockey-built, quite long bodied, and lie
.ar many good colts. There was a hori
rse called the Hackett Horse, got by til
ok Hopkins Horse, who stood here at Rocl
eft ester II or 10 years ago; bay with st,
lso and one or two white hind ankles, 10
1000 lbs; came from Bridgewater wa
M here. The Abbott Horse by Green Mou
ar tain was raised by Henry Abbott of Roc
ok ester; dark chestnut, 900 lbs, about
od hands, all horse; was foaled about 1851
to dam was a Morgan mare owned by job
ON Leonard. l think William Durgee
on Stockbridge, who was a son-in-law
ca Leonard, would know about this hors
AN The horse left nice stock.
Mr.. A. H. McAllister of Benson, VI
ly, says that the dam of Julius Caesar W,
nd bred by F. w. Walker of Benson, got |
tho onhap, Hnrca On, nf