Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-09-20
SOME FURTHER OBSERVATIONS
ON THE VERMONT BREED
ERS' MEETING.
BY W. II. BLISS.

In the colt classes, including the foals
of 1854, there were originally entered at
the last meeting seyentvtive in the seven
speed contests. The number of animals
was not quite as large as the number of
entries, as very few were entered in
two classes. Making the division into
families by the direct male line in the
most general way. there wae 26 Messen-
ger sires represented by 10 entries, and
8 Morgan sires represented by 32 entries.
But only one of the Messenger entries,
that by Roland, failed to trace in direct
male line to Kysdyk's Hambetonian ;
while all but three of the Morgan entries,
those by American Ethan, Morgan Ethan
and Hiland Gray, were descended in di-
rect male line from Daniel Lambert. So
that the contest between Morgans and
Messengers was almost narrowed down
TO a struggle between Lamberts and
Hambletonians. And even here the lines
were by no means clearly drawn, as two
of the three Hambletonian winners in the
colt classes (Contester Wilkes and Alte-
mont were from Lambert dams, the dam
of the other, West Point, being Clay :;
and the dams of two of the four Lam
bert colt winners dynamite and H.
II. Frankln) were by sons of Handle
tonan, the dams of the other two (Hul-
dy b. and Peerless Benz being Morgan
mares. In the two races for aged horses
the winner in the , AS class, Grand Isle,
is by WinOOski, a grandson of Handle
tonian and out of dam by Daniel Lam
bert, while n. O. D., winner in the 80
class, is by Ben Franklin, son of Daniel
Lambert, and from Morgan dam. |. is
a most significant fact that out of twen-
ty-tive winners of the colt races of this
association, only two have failed to be
descended on one side or the other from
Daniel Lambert. The exceptions are
Henry B. by Triceps, that won the five
year-old race and a record of , :3G4 last
year, promising trotter; and West
Point by Westmont, that won the very
slow two-year-old stallion race at this
meeting, best time, ;l01. 1t was said
that West Point could g much faster.
but as Harry H., by Wards Lambert,
downed him at Burlington the next week
in 3 ;09, 1912, his reserve of speed would
seem to be somewhat hypothetical.
But to return to the colt entries at this
meeting; of the 43 entries by 26 Messen-
ger sires, Il trotters, representing Is
sires, came to the wire; of these, three.
by three different sires, were winners,
and, including these, fourteen, by nine
different sires, got a share of the stakes.
The sires OF winners were Victor Wilkes,
sire of the yearling winner, and Almont
star and Westmont, each sire of a two
year-old winner.
OF the 32 entries by Morgan sires, 10
frotters representing 6 sTes came to the
wire; of these, four, all by a single
sire, were winners, and, including these,
twelve, by four different slres, got a
share of the stakes.
The fact that the Messenger sires, rep
rented in the entries, outnumber the
Morgans almost three to one, and in the
races only in a slightly reduced ratio
Us to 9 is significant of the great recent
influx to Vermont of foreign bred stall
lions. 1t is striking fact that only one
of the fifteen Messenger stations repre-
sented in the colt races was bred in YER
mont, while every one of the SIX Morgan
sires represented was begotten in this
State. 1t follows that the long line of
foreign-bred sires introduced here be-
tween 1870 and 1880 have uniformly
failed to produce sons that are speed get