Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17
OLD HORSE ADVERTISEMENTS.


The following are from papers in the
antiquarian library at Worcester, Mass:
From New Jersey Gazette l77s.l
Young Figure, beautiful bay, nine
years, 10 hands. at six pounds, at Rocky
Hill. Bred by proprietor; got by Duke
of Hamilton's Figure, by Old Figure, etc.
Young Figures dam was Britannia, full
sister to True Briton, etc.
Noted horse CRANKY at Kill's-hall at
SIG.
Young Bullrock, beautiful bay, five
years old this grass, in Middlesex Co.. at
SIS. A full-blood horse, got by famous
old Bullrock, and his dam Brittania,
whose stock and blood being so we'll
known in State of New Jersey needs no
further pedigree.
Americas, CHI, Is hands; So to Sl2;
bred by Earl of Sterling.
Will cover at Obediah Meeker's, New
ark, for SIG, Major General by CRANKY,
dam by Bullrock; 1872, five years, dark
bay, 7-S blood.
Arabian at Maidenhead at six pounds.
Got by Wildair, dam by Babraham; g.
d. by old Sterling.
Strayed, brown horse. natural trot-
ter.
1919. Young Ballrock, Arabian Ajax,
a high-bred hunter, 16 hands: walks,
trots or canters light as pony. 1t is ex-
pected from the perfectness of his make
and action that he will with suitable
mares get fine horses for the road or har-
ness. At $40.
17s0.-Jolly Chester his sire was True
Briton, dams sire, Hero; G. dams sire,
Othello.
Stands at stable of subscriber at the
rate of 3 bushels of wheat the season or
80 shillings hard money, that elegant
New England Horse, Peacock. He is a
bay with a white face, his name and tail
black, full 10 hands high, and very just
in his proportion; PAGES, trots and can
tiers; moves with great agility, and amaz-
ingly easy to his rider, and is esteemed
by very competent judges to be one of
the best calculated horses for getting
colts for saddle or harness in the State of
New Jersey.
EZEKIEL SMITH.
Stony Brook, May 6, 1880.
The noted horse old Scipio.
Bay Richmond in Hopewell, 4 pounds
Imported from England by Lewis Nor.
ris in l775, then IA years old.
trah
Janus, dam by Janus, etc.
Young Figure. His dam was Britain.
mia, own sister to that well-known horse
True Briton.
Major General again in 1850.
True Briton will cover at John Phil
lips in Maidenhead at 3 bushels wheat
A beautiful dark bay, well marked, l;
hands, l inch, rising three years old thi,
grass. He was got by jolly Chester, his
dam by Hero, his grand-dam by Briton
This excellent breed of horses are so wei
known, etc.
THOMAS L. PHILLIPS.
Imp. horse, Bold Prisoner, dark bay
1872, and Clear All by Old Bullrock.
l7s2.-Arabian; the noted full-bloodet
horse, Traveller, from Maryland, to cove
In Buckingham, Bucks Co., Penn. Darl
bay, 1913, star, one white hind foot, l.
years old, got by Col. Loyd's imported
horse Traveller, out of imported mar,
Nancy Bywell. Traveller covered
great number, of mares last season a
same place. WILL BENNETT.
Full blooded horse Figure, from Queer
Anne county, Md. A dappled gray, Is
ID, eight years, got by old noted hors,
Figure out of Dove and Otbello mare
He is as high bred horse as any on tn,
continent and for elegance there is non,
to excel him. JOS ROBINSON.
Bay Richmond, Liberty and Fleetwood
in Maidenhead.