Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-18

chased her when four months old. and
when four years old Mr.. Ware bred her
to Hale's Green Mountain, and took her
to Illinois with another mare. The sire of
the Sheridan mare Gypsy Queen) was
his fathers horse, dark chestnut about
10 hands high, and weighed about |, 900
pounds, and went all sorts of gaits: was
foaled about 1915; had no name, was
sold and taken to Ohio. His sire was
Billy Root, g. 5. Old Sherman Morgan;
dam said to be Morgan. He was
brought to Williamstown by Danforth
Carpenter, who owned him in company
with Mr.. Martins father. The dam of
the Sheridan mare Gypsy Queen was
black, and was sired by the Mosely Mar
tin horse, a black horse, g. S. the Town
send horse, black horse, g. g. s. the
Old karson horse, called also the Old
Soldier. He was gray horse and taken
here from Putney, VT, by Thomas Kar-
son. The grandam of the Sheridan mare
Gypsy Queen was taken here by Cur
don Martin from Connecticut; was
brown and called a Narragansett PAGER.
Mr.. Martin said that it was believed that
Gypsy Queen took her speed from the
side of her dam, as none of the Others of
his fathers horses get were fast: that
many of the descendants of her dam were
fast; that the fastest horse in town-the
horse Prentice-was one of them: that
he trotted second, when three, to Bismarck
at the breeders meeting at Burlington in
2474. Mr.. Martin said it was rather hard
to describe the'mare they believed to be
Gypsy Queen, but as he remembered her
she was black, with a star and one white
hind foot. The first he heard of the
Sheriday mare being Gypsy Queen was
the last of the year 1850. Mr.. Wares
fa thor 90 ipt HE hp, nj Il h. H.
just got a letter from Henry, and that he
wrote that the Sheridan mare had become
famous; that she had Just made a dead
heat in ten-mle race at Louisville, kv..
with Captain McGowat, and was matched
to trot again with him at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr.. Martin was then taking Wilkes Spirit
of the Times, and he looked up and read
the account of the races with interest
Mr.. Martin saw the horse Thomas Jefler-
son at the New England Fair at Man
chester, n. H., and then thought he
somewhat resembled the Sheridan mare
and was good specimen of a Vermont
horse. He gave w. ii. Wares address
: as Altoona, Knox county, Illinois, and
said the Martin and Townsend horses
were black as minks, and the dam of the
Townsend horse was.
Mr.. Ware was now asked to tell what
, he knew as to the mare he took to Him
OILS, that was claimed to be the trottinp
mare Gypsy Queen. He replied under
date of March 3 that he had been asked
questions very frequently like ours as to
the black mare he took from Vermont
that they all wanted to get information
as to her without giving any; that if we
would state why the questions were
asked, he would give all the facts he
could as to the mare. We wrote him we
were looking up facts as to Vermont
horses, and that if the mare lie took to
Illinois was the mare Gypsy Queen, we
wanted Vermont to have the credit of
, raising her, and if she was the dam of
the horse Thomas jefferson it was desira-
able to know her origin and breeding.
This did not quite satisfy him, as he
5 asked to know as to Thomas jefferson and
! his sire, and the like. These questions
, we answered, and then he wrote under
date of March II, y and April 20. He
purchased the mare the next winter after
she was foaled of Patrick Sheridan of
: WilliamstOwn. VT, for 500 1t was no.
ticed when she was but nine days old.
and all the way up, that she was a very
fast trotter. He bred her to Green Noun
tain the season of 1855, and the next
, winter took her and her mate to Chica-
go, H., where he staid all winter. The
next spring he moved to Woodstock, H.,
about 80 miles northwest of Chicago, and
r the mare brought that season black
, tilly that he sold when a yearling. and
, knew nothing more of it. The other
mare lost her colt. The season of 1857 he
sold the mares to his brother-in-law, Il.
p. Douglas, who lived at Woodstock and
{ Crystal Lake. Mr.. Douglas sold the
mares in Chicago and moved there soon
, after; lived there until 1871. 1t was from
Mr. Douglas that Mr.. Ware learned that
the Sheridan mare was the mare Gypsy
Queen. He states that he believes Doug
! las saw her trOt in some of her races
, that he kept track of her and knew her
all the time; that he said George W.
Bidwell drove the mare. 1t was in 1858
that Douglas first told him she was the
mare Gypsy Queen. He did not know of
her after her races with Captain Meow
an. He would not give cent to be any
, more convinced, or have any more proof
t that the Sheridan mare he sold Douglas
was the trotting mare Gypsy Queen said
, she was black with one white hind foot
was not positive as to her having a star
if she did it was very small; was 10
. hands high and weighed 1000 pounds
not handsome head, though small, neck
rather short, medium tail as to hair,
rather blocky built; did not resemble the
, Vermont Black Hawks in looks.
altoona, April &c, 1883.
Mr.. THOMPSON, WOODSTOCK,
Dear Sir:-Yours received inclosing
photograph of Gypsy Queen. / would
have known it if you hadn't given the
name. Just from the way she stood on
that left hind ankle, knuckled forward.
She always stood that way; age didn't
make it. / never thought it was nice,
but she nearly always stood that way in
the stable, her ankle pushed forward.
Have heard nothing from Il. p. Douglas.
, Don't know his business. Don't know
what his business was in Chicago; he has
changed his kind of business great
many times. think remember it was
i the right ankle that was white. Her
name and tail were medium heft when
young; age made her tail thinner. She
was very black, was kind and gentle, no
tricks, easy to be caught in pasture, not
handsome standing. but nice mover, a