Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
LIBERTY.

sire of Black Maria has until recentIv
been given as Harris Hambletonian. Mr..
Battell claims that this is not correct. and
Is now wrestling with the problem. The
latest developments point to Liberty, son
of Bishops Hambletonian, as her sire. al
though month since it looked as
though she was a daughter of Young
Cock of the Rock. This claim has re-
Gently been abandoned"
when stating recently that the latest
developments pointed to Liberty as the
sire OF Black Maria we neglected to re-
call Liberty's true pedigree. We saw
afterwards we should have done it. Lib
erty is entered in Mr.. Wallace's Register
as by Bishops Hambletonian. We gave
this Information to Mr.. Wallace and was
mistaken about it. He has not vet cor
rected the entry, though the correction
was made very publicly by us in the
Spirit OF the Times, where a whole pare
was devoted to the subject: and after
wards in the REGISTER. The trouble
was that Allan Smith owned two bav
horses, and owned them for several wears
at the same time. One was Liberty.
the other Pone. We at first made one
horse of the two. Liberty he owned
first and for quite number of years be-
fore he had Pone. Liberty was a bav
horse of good proportions. at least 15-2
in height and 1900 lbs. weight. lie was
bred by Jacob Smith, Addison, VT. and
sold in the dam to Mr.. kngsland. also of
Addison. foaled about 1910. and sold bv
Mr.. kingsland when five years old to
Allan Smith. who kept him till 1851.
when he sold him to a Mr.. Graves near
keene, n. Y, where Mr.. Yale bought him
i'll 1880. He was got by colt of the mare
known as the Carter mare that came
from New Jersey, the blood of which
is unknown. Pone was a small bav
horse, about ID hands and about $50
lbs, foaled 1920 and it would appear was
bred by Judge Larrabee of Shorenam and
got by Bishops Hambetonian; dam said
to be by Leonidas, horse bred in Vir-
ginia and got by an imported English
Hunter. Mr.. Allan Smith had this horse
in 1924, perhaps in 1923, and kept him
till about 1887. 1t does not appear what
finally became of him.
1t is very nice question which of
these horses got the dams of Vermont
Hero and Sherman Black Hawk. The
mares were foaled about 1926. They
were got by horse Allan Smith owned.
1t was claimed by the owners of the
mares that they were by Liberty. More
than 20 years afterwards it is said that
Mr. Smith said they were by Pone. OAR
win Rider of Middlebury, who is one of
our most intelligent horsemen, owner of
Clara NJ. 2:29 and Mambrino Archie.
2 :24a and at one time owner of Sher-
man Black Hawk, and Grey Norman.
says he remembers these mares very we'll
as far back as 1887, when they were driy-
EN- constantly to his store at Frost's Land
ing, by their respective owners. One of
these mares was bay, the other black,
They were both large, somewhat rangy,
and Mr.. Rider says looked very much
alike. He told me several years ago that
he did not know what horse got them.
but he should be very sure that the same
horse got both. Mr.. Rider also knew
Black Maria equally well with the others,
and says now that she exactly resembled
in general character and shape the
other two and he should guess her by
the same horse. We found the books for
Liberty at Mr.. Iale's for 1901. Mr..
Iale's married daughter, who lives with
him. thinks there was another book with
name Liberty in it for 1881. and that
it was burnt up with some old papers a
year or two ago. Mr.. Yale thought at
first as we published, that he kept the
Morgan horse Fox till fall of 1888: but
our researches proved that he sold Fox
in 1881. He now thinks he must have
kept Liberty till fall of 1898. His next
stallion was Young Cock of the Rock,
bought June 1884. Mr. Yale sold Liber-
ty to Lewis Mcdonald, Middlebury. Mr..
Portus Champlin of East Mddlebury,
and no better testimony could possibly
be had than his, says they raised colt
from Liberty, foaled 1892. (The books
of Liberty for 1881 show that Mr. Cham
pin bred a mare) and he is sure that Mr..
Yale kept Liberty another season, certain,
after they bred to him, and he thinks two
seasons. There our testimony rests at
present. At one time, Mr.. Yale told us
that he could not have had Liberty oyer
three seasons, so that it seemed to us
that he had no stallion in 1888, but 1t
looks now as if he did. We have faith
that something will decide this point yet.
At our last search at Mr.. Yale's we
found the book for Young Cock of the
Rock for 1884, that Mr.. Yale thought he
let go with the horse, but did not. Mr..
Wainwright's name was not in it, which
disposes of the belief that this horse got
Black Maria. Under all the circumstan-
cpS This Spama1 at ono tima nan1