Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-25

gait, and were prompt, free and decisive
drivers. The material line of the Nc |
Clellan horse was Canadian, pure and
simple.
There was also Roe's Black Hawk,
owned, too, in Clarenceville, and descend
ed just as was McClellan's, and the get
of both were renowned for an ability to
trot so fast as 2 40, at least, with ample
facilities for the exercise of their capaci-
ties over the mile track which Mr.. James
Shaw, proprietor of the Massachusetts
House, and a thorough horseman, man
aged at Rouses Point, n. Y, and that
other mile track at Corbeau, n. Y, whose
principal proprietor was the Hon. Lem
uel North of Champlain, n. Y, who
owned the leading stallion of that coun-
try next to Ethan Allen, in the person of
the North Horse, or as he is listed in
the Morgan StudBook, Sherman Black
Hawk, son of Hills Black Hawk. The
North. Horse crossed upon all sorts of
mares, and he sired among others, Rip
Van Wrinkle and Black Ralph, both com~
DCttllt w tiOb Wei NlOsN w = .cV' DCciNCs
he was sire to Napoleon, whose son, Re-
venge, got Troubadour @ :l9t), as well
as Observer q PAD; and another grand
son, Kentucky Black Hawk, got Gen.
Garfield q :2D.
1t is safe to say that nine-tenths of the
horses of that day and country were pos
sessed of Canadian blood, and especially
notable us contemporary with the North
Horse, and his frequent competitor in
the "mute, inglorious'' contests of the
period, was the bay horse known as ST.
Lawrence, but whose whole name-and
it indicates his old France extraction
was st. Lawrence Bayard. OF this lat
ter horse, Commonwealth (2:22) was an
heir, and he contests with Henry Clay
founder of the great Clay lineage the
honor of having been sire to Hattie
Woodward, the mare which, in 1880, won
a record of 2:153 at Buffalo, and is ac-
credited in Underhill's swimmers" (that
invaluable udde mecum for every sports
mani with twenty-four heats in 2 80 and
better.
S 1t may be observed in passing, that an
A other descendant of the North Horse,
( General Butler won renown, in 1868, by
l his saddle-feat of mile in 81, and
again in 1866, when in harness he OBJ
f tanned record of 2 :231, and Mr.. Under
: hill gives him credit of forty-siX heats in
: 80 and better and again Foxie V
a @ :23a) and Herod (2:244) were got by
!. King Herod, son to this same northern
f New York stallion and the winners
a testifies to their staying power in terms
e as strong as those used regarding Butler
e There is enough, however, to be said OF
J. the North Black Hawks alone to occupy
e a single items space in the Sportsman
= and so will confine the remainder o
s this item to the Canadians, nor would
$ have been led to the Black Hawk digres
mate association of the two strains o
blood.
The Canadian horse has rendered
good account of itself, whether through
+ his labOrs as sire or dam, in this country
e and if it had been accorded the privilege
8 now common in these days of tirst-rat
?, stock upon which its power could hav
,. been eXerted its story would have beef
J. far more important and engrossing thai
II now it is. Yet. that story by no mean
It is of little consequence, as one may real
n it in existing records, and its details hay
h been accommodating for long term o
= years. The reader will remember tina
It Henry Clay was dropped by Canadian
IS mare to the service of Andrew Jackson
d and one of the great ones of the yea
t. 1885, Lord Nelson (2:26N, whom Wei
J. lington, son of Kentucky Prince, sired t
n Miss Mcleod, isSdescended out of Can
p adam also, for the dam of Miss McLeO
I. was by the Holbert Colt, whom Rysdyk'
20 Hambletonian begot upon mare whic
ID came in from the province, and rejoice
it in the name-Anglicised-o Bull-froe
Is Both these instances disclose what til
T. horse of Canada is competent for whe
n its blood is allied with that of a sincere
Dt performing family. l have been SUI
as prised by my examination of Mr.. Under
N hills 2 80 list so far as the results of
ne concern the Canadian horse, and doul
" not the reader will be, unless he alread
is familiar with the facts.
" In class after class, from that as hig
s, as 2 :l5t, the provincial horses have thei
" representatiOn as Hattie Woodvar
ne (2:l5d) was chargeable with the Lineage
III whether her dam was the daughter {
of Harry Clay or of Old st. Lawrence, f,
g Henry Clay's dam was Canuck, and s
w one continues to find the blood in tt
he following substantial way Moose q 10!
as originated in the vicinity of Ottaw,
al Ont, and acquired his curious appell
nd ton from the word which the Indiar
I'd used tOsdescribe his attitude when In M