Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-06-28
NEW TWO-THIRTY TROTTERS.
THREE FROM ADDISON COUNTY: BESSIE
H.. 2:254; MAY BE, 2:2e'a: GlLLIG,
2:234; EACH BY A SON OF
DANIEL LAMBERT.

OtANtCL It"oGh''
'sThe Lamberts are not trotters," is
the text of our very young and very en-
thusiastic friend, Baker, who diversities
the business of helping his father breed
fashionable trotting stock at the Great
Meadows farm with the amusement of
writing horse notes of doubtful value for
the Fair Haven Era. "If the facts do
not accord with the theory, so much the
worse for the facts" Those stubborn
things known as facts began to come to
the surface early this month, when Bessie
II. came into the list at the Spring Meet
ing of the New y ork Driving club at
Fleetwood, with a mark of :25a, being
the best record made at the meeting
Bessiei II. is the eighth of the get of
Abraham, son of Daniel Lambert, to beat
2 80, two of which have placed their
mark below 20. She was bred by Mr..
Hall of Cornwall in this county, from
dam by Shoreham Black Hawk, son of
Vermont Black Hawk. The dam of Abra-
ham, it will be remembered, was also by
Vermont Black Hawk, making Bessie ii.
very much Morgan of the Black Hawk
line. The dam of Shoreham Black Hawk
is said to have been by Searcher, son of
Barney Henry. Searcher got the dam of
the famous Gen. Knox. Our informa-
ton is not complete on the breeding of
Shoreham Black Hawk, and any reader
who will supply such information will
confer a favor.
The next contribution of Addison
county to the list was the elegant bay
six-year-old mare, May Be, by Ben
Franklin @ :29), son of Daniel Lambert.
May Be was bred by A. j. Hough of Or
well from a dam by the son of Volun-
teer, formerly owned by him and known
as Hough's Vermont Volunteer; second
dam of May Be by Young Columbus, son
of Columbus. Mr.. Hough kept this filly
till 1887, when he drove her in the four
year-old class at the Vermont Breeders
meeting, winning the first, fifth and sixth
heats, and thereby taking the race and a
record of 40. She then passed into the
hands of her present owner, Geo. H..
Hicks, proprietor of Beacon park, Bos-
ton, who drove her winning race of split
heats at his recent June meeting there, in
which she took record of 2 :26t. May
Be is the fourth of the get of Ben Frank
lin to enter the 30 list; greater num-
Der than was ever got, in New England
or New York, by any stallion equally
young, excepting Messenger Duroc, who
stood even with him, and Hamlin's Al
mont, bred in Kentucky, who surpassed
him by two. Three of Messenger Du-
roc's four were out of the famous brood
mare Green Mountain Maid. And it is
noticeable that Hamlin's Almont, al
though ranking as Hambletonian, car
ries precisely the same amount of blood of
Vermont Black Hawk as of Hambletoni-
an land that of his trotters, Huon and JUS
tina have double the blood of Black
Hawk that they have of Hambletonian,
while his wonderful daughter, Belle
Hamlin q ;l3a), has five parts of Black
Hawk to two parts of Hambletonian
blood.
Since getting the above record, May
Be has won another race in straight
heats, two of which were trotted better
than 80.
In this connection we are looking with
eager interest for the performances OF
the get of the four great sires that were
awarded premiums by Messrs. Busby
and Coleman at the New England fair
last fall, over Ben Franklin. Their
names were Naaman, Absolute, Solicitor
and L'Empereur. AS neither of this tri-
umphant quartette has a record of his