Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
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Brve that he received the slightest de-
rec of propulsion from the running
brse and my conviction was then, and
now, that any such propulsion would
ave interfered with his unapproachable
ction, and would have retarded rather
han helped him. The most noticeable
Pature in his style of movement vas the
emarkable lowness to which he dropped
: body, and the straight-gliding line it
Maintained at that elevation"
Ethan won this race in 2 10, 2 :16, 2 10.
was the browning event of one of the
lost remarkable among trotting careers.
than was on the turf more or less,
early every season, from the time he
as two till he was II. He made the
EST three-year-old, four-year-old and
fallion records made up to his time, as
ell as far surprising with running mate
| trotters of his day in the same or any
her rig. He trotted 80 public and re-
Prded races. of which he won 80, and is
i'd to have taken first money ''by ar
ngement' in II more. He is also said
have been twice poisoned to prevent
5 winning. His legitimate earnings IN
e turf amounted to nearly $50 200.
nd, after a longer turf career than any
her trotter that has ever trod the track,
retired with a harness record of 2 :255,
d a record with running mate of , :l5.
This hard and constant campaigning
ade Ethan's career as a stock horse
mewhat desultory, and doubtless in
ter years impaired his value as a sire.
1t during his periods of repose from the
ack he got seventy winners of public
GEES, ten of which have records in 2 80
better. But it is very noticeable that
arly all his trotters, as well as produc-
sons, were got in the early part of his
1reer. In 1857, a year in which he did
t appear Oh the turf, he got the three
bile Vermont stations, Daniel Lambert,
blabird's Ethan and De Longs Ethan,
still living, one the sire of more trot-
IS in 2:30 or better than any
her living stallion, and all without
her rivals in the State, of their day, as
oducers of superb roadsters and success
trotters. American Ethan, another
ccessful sire, was got the same year.
1858, although he was trotting, he got
E beautiful trotting mare Pocohantas
:26a). for which Mr.. Bonner afterwards
lid 100000, and Dixon's Ethan Allen,
other successful sire. In 1859, the
hson when he beat Lantern and mate
$4,000, he sired Woodlands Ethan
len, full brother to Lambert; also Hol-
Ids Ethan Allen and Bacon's Ethan
len, all successful sires represented
from three to sever in the 2:30
i. His fastest trotter by the Ie-
fds, Billy Barr (2:234), was got
1850, and Hotspur (2:24), his
Pst successful campaigner, in 1861.
to this time Ethan Allen compares
Torably as a sire with the great lumi-
by among trotting ~progenitors. Rys-
ks Hambletonian, born the same year.
t Hambletonian, no trotter himself,
S in the hands of a shrewd and cool
hded proprietor, who kept him in the
ID and made the most of his opportuni-
S, while Ethan was at the mercy of a
of gamblers, fighting the combined
ains of continuous campaigning and
drugs and poisons used to prevent
winning. The two sires died the
he year. Hambletonian left a family
over 1900 of his get; Ethan, no II
pws how many, but probably a little
re than one-third of that number.
d the conditions been reversed, who
tell what the relatives results might
Ie been?
ethan Allen was bred by Joel W. Hol-
NIB, TiconderOga, n. Y, and was got
Vermont Black Hawk. He was foal-
in June, 1919. His dam was a we'll
1t. 10 hand, gray mare, a good road
r, bred by John Field, Esq. at Spring
d, VT, foaled in April, 1880. and got
IA bay horse then owned by Moses
ties of Springfield called Red Robin;
ond dam, a dark brown mare bred by
lr. Bemis of Springfield, VT, and said
nave been by a horse of the blood of
lrush Morgan; third dam, a chestnut
re brought into Chester, VT, by one
aeon Chandler from Tunbridge, VT.
/ said to have been by Justin Morgan.
l Robin was confidently claimed to
e been by Woodbury. Morgan, but
? Investigations make it improbable
t he was so, and leave his sire unas-
tanned. 1t is hoped hat investiga-
hs now in progress will give the true
igree of Red Robin. He is described
F. A. Leland as ''as handsome "A bay
sc as you ever saw, a playful horse,
Pple as a fox, as handsome as Ethan
en-, who looked like him."
1t the time when the gray FLY was
d and foaled, Frederick A. Leland,
v a substantial and reliable citizen of
ldlebury, and an intelligent horseman,
eder of Gen. Putnam (sire of Major,
40 which he sold for S2500-this Mr..
and. then about 10 years old, was at
rk for Esquire John Field, held the
RE when she was bred t Red Robin
first saw the FLY after it was dropped.
then went into business as a peddler,
in the fall after the filly was four
RS old he bought her of Esquire Field
$50, wintered her at a place he lie
d) had in Sherburne, and in the spring
1885 let |. G. Shaw of S%herburne, who
to peddle for him, drive her on a
die cart on a route which extended
Dss the lake to Ticonderoga, Hague,
room, etc. After the first trip they
at Whitehall, where the mare ran
ny, but without damage. Leland con-
1ed that the mare was too Eighty to
die with and told Shaw to dispose of
. Leland soon had a letter from Shaw
meet him at Apollos Austin's in Or
i, and did so, and there met Rufus
ing of Hague, n. Y, whom Shaw
brought to trade for the mare, and
led the gray mare to Rising for a gray
ding. This was in July, 1885. Ris-
took the mare home to Hague and
t her three years, until the summer
Jail of 1898, and raised at least one
from her. He then sold her to